Prayer For The Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEA FFGGHH IIJKLL| Peace unto this house I pray | A |
| Keep terror and despair away | A |
| Shield it from evil and let sin | B |
| Never find lodging room within | B |
| May never in these walls be heard | C |
| The hateful or accusing word | C |
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| Grant that its warm and mellow light | D |
| May be to all a beacon bright | D |
| A flaming symbol that shall stir | E |
| The beating pulse of him or her | E |
| Who finds this door and seems to say | A |
| 'Here end the trials of the day ' | - |
| - | |
| Hold us together gentle Lord | F |
| Who sit about this humble board | F |
| May we be spared the cruel fate | G |
| Of those whom hatreds separate | G |
| Here let love bind us fast that we | H |
| May know the joys of unity | H |
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| Lord this humble house we'd keep | I |
| Sweet with play and calm with sleep | I |
| Help us so that we may give | J |
| Beauty to the lives we live | K |
| Let Thy love and let Thy grace | L |
| Shine upon our dwelling place | L |
Edgar Albert Guest
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