What The Lord Saith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HHHH IJIJTrust my father saith the eldest born | A |
I did trust him ere the earth began | B |
Not to know him is to be forlorn | A |
Not to love him is not to be man | B |
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He that knows him loves him altogether | C |
With my father I am so content | D |
That through all this dreary human weather | C |
I am working waiting confident | E |
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He is with me I am not alone | F |
Life is bliss because I am his child | G |
Down in Hades will I lay the stone | F |
Whence shall rise to Heaven his city piled | G |
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Hearken brothers pray you to my story | H |
Hear me sister hearken child to me | H |
Our one father is a perfect glory | H |
He is light and there is none but he | H |
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Come then with me I will lead the way | I |
All of you sore hearted heavy shod | J |
Come to father yours and mine I pray | I |
Little ones I pray you come to God | J |
George Macdonald
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