Our Father-s Business: Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCCD EFGHIJG KLMN OBBPQ RSTUVNWXMHDYDD VZA2B2 C2D2E2F2ZG2H2I2C2CD C2J2HSK2L2NM M2C2N2O2P2A2 Q2R2OS2GD T2C2U2V2U2RU2 W2P2X2P2Y2P2 UZ2HZ2I2Z2 RA3T2A3B3A3 C3C2D3C2E3C2 N2U2F3U2RU2| HOLMAN HUNT'S PICTURE OF 'CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE ' | A |
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| O CHRIST CHILD Everlasting Holy One | B |
| Sufferer of all the sorrow of this world | C |
| Redeemer of the sin of all this world | C |
| Who by Thy death brought'st life into this world | C |
| O Christ hear us | D |
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| This this is Thou No idle painter's dream | E |
| Of aureoled imaginary Christ | F |
| Laden with attributes that make not God | G |
| But Jesus son of Mary lowly wise | H |
| Obedient subject unto parents mild | I |
| Meek as the meek that shall inherit earth | J |
| Pure as the pure in heart that shall see God | G |
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| O infinitely human yet divine | K |
| Half clinging childlike to the mother found | L |
| Yet half repelling as the soft eyes say | M |
| 'How is it that ye sought me Wist ye not | N |
| That I must be about my Father's business ' | - |
| As in the Temple's splendors mystical | O |
| Earth's wisdom hearkening to the all wise One | B |
| Earth's closest love clasping the all loving One | B |
| He sees far off the vision of the cross | P |
| The Christ like glory and the Christ like doom | Q |
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| Messiah Elder Brother Priest and King | R |
| The Son of God and yet the woman's seed | S |
| Enterer within the veil Victor of death | T |
| And made to us first fruits of them that sleep | U |
| Saviour and Intercessor Judge and Lord | V |
| All that we know of Thee or knowing not | N |
| Love only waiting till the perfect time | W |
| When we shall know even as we are known | X |
| O Thou Child Jesus Thou dost seem to say | M |
| By the soft silence of these heavenly eyes | H |
| That rose out of the depths of nothingness | D |
| Upon this limner's reverent soul and hand | Y |
| We too should be about our father's business | D |
| O Christ hear us | D |
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| Have mercy on us Jesus Christ our Lord | V |
| The cross Thou borest still is hard to bear | Z |
| And awful even to humblest follower | A2 |
| The little that Thou givest each to do | B2 |
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| Of this Thy Father's business whether it be | C2 |
| Temptation by the devil of the flesh | D2 |
| Or long linked years of lingering toil obscure | E2 |
| Uncomforted save by the solemn rests | F2 |
| On mountain tops of solitary prayer | Z |
| Oft ending in the supreme sacrifice | G2 |
| The putting off all garments of delight | H2 |
| And taking sorrow's kingly crown of thorn | I2 |
| In crucifixion of all self to Thee | C2 |
| Who offeredst up Thyself for all the world | C |
| O Christ hear us | D |
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| Our Father's business unto us as Thee | C2 |
| The whole which this earth life this hand breadth span | J2 |
| Out of our everlasting life that lies | H |
| Hidden with Thee in God can ask or need | S |
| Outweighing all that heap of petty woes | K2 |
| To us a measure huge which angels blow | L2 |
| Out of the balance of our total lot | N |
| As zephyrs blow the winged dust away | M |
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| O Thou who wert the Child of Nazareth | M2 |
| Make us see only this and only Thee | C2 |
| Who camest but to do thy Father's will | N2 |
| And didst delight to do it Take Thou then | O2 |
| Our bitterness of loss aspirings vain | P2 |
| And anguishes of unfulfilled desire | A2 |
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| Our joys imperfect our sublimed despairs | Q2 |
| Our hopes our dreams our wills our loves our all | R2 |
| And cast them into the great crucible | O |
| In which the whole earth slowly purified | S2 |
| Runs molten and shall run the Will of God | G |
| O Christ hear us | D |
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| An Autumn Psalm For | T2 |
| NO shadow o'er the silver sea | C2 |
| That as in slumber heaves | U2 |
| No cloud on the September sky | V2 |
| No blight on any leaves | U2 |
| As the reaper comes rejoicing | R |
| Bringing in his sheaves | U2 |
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| Long long and late the spring delayed | W2 |
| And summer dank with rain | P2 |
| Hung trembling o'er her sunless fruit | X2 |
| And her unripened grain | P2 |
| And like a weary hopeless life | Y2 |
| Sobbed herself out in pain | P2 |
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| So the year laid her child to sleep | U |
| Her beauty half expressed | Z2 |
| Then slowly slowly cleared the skies | H |
| And smoothed the seas to rest | Z2 |
| And raised the fields of yellowing corn | I2 |
| O'er Summer's buried breast | Z2 |
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| Till Autumn counterfeited Spring | R |
| With such a flush of flowers | A3 |
| His fiery tinctured garlands more | T2 |
| Than mocked the April bowers | A3 |
| And airs as sweet as airs of June | B3 |
| Brought on the twilight hours | A3 |
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| O holy twilight tender calm | C3 |
| O star above the sea | C2 |
| O golden harvest gathered in | D3 |
| With late solemnity | C2 |
| And thankful joy for gifts nigh lost | E3 |
| Which yet so plenteous be | C2 |
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| Although the rain cloud wraps the hill | N2 |
| And sudden swoop the leaves | U2 |
| And the year nears his sacred end | F3 |
| No eye weeps no heart grieves | U2 |
| For the reaper came rejoicing | R |
| Bringing in his sheaves | U2 |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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