The Consoler: On An Engraving Of Scheffer's Christus Consolator Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEEDDE A FGGFFGFGHIIHHI A JAEJJAAJKLLMNLI | A |
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What human form is this what form divine | B |
And who are these that gaze upon his face | C |
Mild beautiful and full of heavenly grace | C |
With whose reflected light the gazers shine | B |
Saviour who does not know it to be thine | B |
Who does not long to fill a gazer's place | C |
And yet there is no time there is no space | C |
To keep away thy servants from thy shrine | B |
Here if we kneel and watch with faithful eyes | D |
Thou art not too far for faithful eyes to see | E |
Thou art not too far to turn and look on me | E |
To speak to me and to receive my sighs | D |
Therefore for ever I forget the skies | D |
And find an everlasting Sun in thee | E |
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II | A |
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Oh let us never leave that happy throng | F |
From that low attitude of love not cease | G |
In all the world there is no other peace | G |
In all the world no other shield from wrong | F |
But chiefly Saviour for thy feet we long | F |
For no vain quiet for no pride's increase | G |
But that being weak and Thou divinely strong | F |
Us from our hateful selves thou mayst release | G |
We wander from thy fold's free holy air | H |
Forget thy looks and take our fill of sin | I |
But if thou keep us evermore within | I |
We never surely can forget thee there | H |
Breathing thy breath thy white robe given to wear | H |
And loving thee for all thou diedst to win | I |
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III | A |
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To speak of him in language of our own | J |
Is not for us too daringly to try | A |
But Saviour we can read thy history | E |
Upon the faces round thy humble throne | J |
And as the flower among the grass makes known | J |
What summer suns have warmed it from the sky | A |
As every human smile and human sigh | A |
Is witness that we do not live alone | J |
So in that company in those sweet tears | K |
The first born of a rugged melted heart | L |
In those gaunt chains for ever torn apart | L |
And in the words that weeping mother hears | M |
We read the story of two thousand years | N |
And know thee somewhat Saviour as thou art | L |
George Macdonald
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