A Thanksgiving For F. D. Maurice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IEIE JKJK LMLM ANAN OPOP| The veil hath lifted and hath fallen and him | A |
| Who next it stood before us first so long | B |
| We see not but between the cherubim | A |
| The light burns clearer come a thankful song | B |
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| Lord for thy prophet's calm commanding voice | C |
| For his majestic innocence and truth | D |
| For his unswerving purity of choice | C |
| For all his tender wrath and plenteous ruth | D |
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| For his obedient wise clear listening care | E |
| To hear for us what word The Word would say | F |
| For all the trembling fervency of prayer | E |
| With which he led our souls the prayerful way | F |
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| For all the heavenly glory of his face | G |
| That caught the white Transfiguration's shine | H |
| And cast on us the reflex of thy grace | G |
| Of all thy men late left the most divine | H |
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| For all his learning and the thought of power | I |
| That seized thy one Idea everywhere | E |
| Brought the eternal down into the hour | I |
| And taught the dead thy life to claim and share | E |
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| For his humility dove clear of guile | J |
| The sin denouncing he like thy great Paul | K |
| Still claimed in it the greatest share the while | J |
| Our eyes love sharpened saw him best of all | K |
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| For his high victories over sin and fear | L |
| The captive hope his words of truth set free | M |
| For his abiding memory holy dear | L |
| Last for his death and hiding now in thee | M |
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| We praise we magnify thee Lord of him | A |
| Thou hast him still he ever was thine own | N |
| Nor shall our tears prevail the path to dim | A |
| That leads where lowly still he haunts thy throne | N |
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| When thou O Lord ascendedst up on high | O |
| Good gifts thou sentest down to cheer thy men | P |
| Lo he ascends we follow with the cry | O |
| His spirit send thou back in thine again | P |
George Macdonald
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