Translations. - Simeon The Patriarch's Song Of Praise. (luther's Song-book.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFGFHI JKLKMI NENOHDIn peace and joy I now depart | A |
For God hath willed it | B |
Comforted is my mind and heart | A |
For he hath stilled it | B |
As my God did promise me | C |
Death is grown only slumber | D |
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That shows that Christ is God's own Son | E |
And our saviour so | F |
Whom thou O Lord to me hast shown | G |
Making me know | F |
Him the Life eternal | H |
And health in pain and dying | I |
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In the fore front thou hast him placed | J |
In him delighted | K |
The whole world to his kingdom blest | L |
Hast invited | K |
Through thy precious wholesome word | M |
In every place resounding | I |
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He is the health and happy light | N |
Of the heathen | E |
To ope their eyes and give them sight | N |
Thee to see then | O |
He to thy people Isr'el | H |
Is glory honour pleasure | D |
George Macdonald
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