A Lancashire Doxology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJKLL| PRAISE God from whom all blessings flow | A |
| Praise Him who sendeth joy and woe | A |
| The Lord who takes the Lord who gives | B |
| O praise Him all that dies and lives | B |
| He opens and He shuts his hand | C |
| But why we cannot understand | C |
| Pours and dries up his mercies' flood | D |
| And yet is still All perfect Good | E |
| We fathom not the mighty plan | F |
| The mystery of God and man | F |
| We women when afflictions come | G |
| We only suffer and are dumb | G |
| And when the tempest passing by | H |
| He gleams out sun like through our sky | H |
| We look up and through black clouds riven | I |
| We recognize the smile of Heaven | I |
| Ours is not wisdom of the wise | J |
| We have no deep philosophies | K |
| Childlike we take both kiss and rod | L |
| For he who loveth knoweth God | L |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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