Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI IIIIJKJK LMLNOIPI| Lord when those glorious lights I see | A |
| With which thou hast adorned the skies | B |
| Observing how they moved be | A |
| And how their splendor fills mine eyes | B |
| Methinks it is too large a grace | C |
| But that thy love ordained it so | D |
| That creatures in so high a place | C |
| Should servants be to man below | D |
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| The meanest lamp now shining there | E |
| In size and lustre doth exceed | F |
| The noblest of thy creatures here | G |
| And of our friendship hath no need | F |
| Yet these upon mankind attend | H |
| For secret aid or public light | I |
| And from the world's extremest end | H |
| Repair unto us every night | I |
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| O had that stamp been undefaced | I |
| Which first on us thy hand had set | I |
| How highly should we have been graced | I |
| Since we are so much honored yet | I |
| Good God for what but for the sake | J |
| Of thy beloved and only Son | K |
| Who did on him our nature take | J |
| Were these exceeding favors done | K |
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| As we by him have honored been | L |
| Let us to him due honors give | M |
| Let us uprightness hide our sin | L |
| And let us worth from him receive | N |
| Yea so let us by grace improve | O |
| What thou by nature doth bestow | I |
| That to thy dwelling place above | P |
| We may be raised from below | I |
George Wither
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