To A Friend. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHGI JFJF KFKF EDED FFLF FMFM NONP| Ah be not sad though adverse winds may blow | A |
| Thy patience and thy fortitude to prove | B |
| Thy Saviour wears no frown upon his brow | C |
| 'Tis but the graver countenance of love | D |
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| Though clouds and darkness round about him roll | E |
| In righteousness and truth He sits enthroned | F |
| And precious in His sight the immortal soul | E |
| For whose deep stain of guilt His love atoned | F |
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| He makes our dearest earthly comforts flee | G |
| Or e'en when clustering round us bids them pall | H |
| That thus the altogether lovely He | G |
| Chief of ten thousand may be all in all | I |
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| And hast thou not some blissful moments known | J |
| Even while bowed beneath the chast'ning rod | F |
| When to thy humble spirit it was shown | J |
| That glorious is the City of thy God | F |
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| Hast thou not seen the King in beauty there | K |
| And has He not assured thy fainting heart | F |
| That from His reconciled His child and heir | K |
| The covenant of His peace would ne'er depart | F |
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| Has He not fully satisfied thy soul | E |
| With the pure river of His joy and love | D |
| Subdued each murmuring thought to his control | E |
| And stayed thy mind on changeless things above | D |
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| When He thou callest Abba Father placed | F |
| The earnest of adoption in thine heart | F |
| Thou wast engraven ne'er to be effaced A | L |
| Upon His holy hands and His thou art | F |
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| Then doubt no more for the omniscient God | F |
| All whose mysterious ways are just and true | M |
| In life will comfort with his staff and rod | F |
| Be near in death and guide thee safely through | M |
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| And when the race is run the victory given | N |
| How sweet with the redeemed to bear the palm | O |
| Ten thousand times ten thousand saints in Heaven | N |
| Who hymn eternal praises to the Lamb | P |
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
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