Christmas, 1880 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDD EFEFFGG HIJKILL BMBMMNO APAPPGG| Great hearted child thy very being The Son | A |
| Who know'st the hearts of all us prodigals | B |
| For who is prodigal but he who has gone | C |
| Far from the true to heart it with the false | B |
| Who who but thou that from the animals' | B |
| Know'st all the hearts up to the Father's own | D |
| Can tell what it would be to be alone | D |
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| Alone No father At the very thought | E |
| Thou the eternal light wast once aghast | F |
| A death in death for thee it almost wrought | E |
| But thou didst haste about to breathe thy last | F |
| And call'dst out Father ere thy spirit passed | F |
| Exhausted in fulfilling not any vow | G |
| But doing his will who greater is than thou | G |
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| That we might know him thou didst come and live | H |
| That we might find him thou didst come and die | I |
| The son heart brother thy son being give | J |
| We too would love the father perfectly | K |
| And to his bosom go back with the cry | I |
| Father into thy hands I give the heart | L |
| Which left thee but to learn how good thou art | L |
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| There are but two in all the universe | B |
| The father and his children not a third | M |
| Nor all the weary time fell any curse | B |
| Not once dropped from its nest an unfledged bird | M |
| But thou wast with it Never sorrow stirred | M |
| But a love pull it was upon the chain | N |
| That draws the children to the father again | O |
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| O Jesus Christ babe man eternal son | A |
| Take pity we are poor where thou art rich | P |
| Our hearts are small and yet there is not one | A |
| In all thy father's noisy nursery which | P |
| Merry or mourning in its narrow niche | P |
| Needs not thy father's heart this very now | G |
| With all his being's being even as thou | G |
George Macdonald
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