Paraphrases From Scripture. Isaiah Xlix. 15. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKL DDHHIIJJKLMMNNOOPQRR KLSSTTUUVVOOWWXXYYZZ JJ| Heaven speaks Oh Nature listen and rejoice | A |
| Oh spread from pole to pole this gracious voice | A |
| Say every breast of human frame that proves | B |
| The boundless force with which a parent loves | C |
| Say can a mother from her yearning heart | D |
| Bid the soft image of her child depart | D |
| She whom strong instinct arms with strength to bear | E |
| All forms of ill to shield that dearest care | E |
| She who with anguish stung with madness wild | F |
| Will rush on death to save her threaten'd child | F |
| All selfish feelings banish'd from her breast | G |
| Her life one aim to make another's blest | G |
| When her vex'd infant to her bosom clings | H |
| When round her neck his eager arms he flings | H |
| Breathes to her list'ning soul his melting sigh | I |
| And lifts suffus'd with tears his asking eye | I |
| Will she for all ambition can attain | J |
| The charms of pleasure or the lures of gain | J |
| Betray strong Nature's feelings will she prove | K |
| Cold to the claims of duty and of love | L |
| But should the mother from her yearning heart | D |
| Bid the soft image of her child depart | D |
| When the vex'd infant to her bosom clings | H |
| When round her neck his eager arms he flings | H |
| Should she unpitying hear his melting sigh | I |
| And view unmov'd the tear that fills his eye | I |
| Should she for all ambition can attain | J |
| The charms of pleasure or the lures of gain | J |
| Betray strong Nature's feelings should she prove | K |
| Cold to the claims of duty and of love | L |
| Yet never will the God whose word gave birth | M |
| To yon illumin'd orbs and this fair earth | M |
| Who thro' the boundless depths of trackless space | N |
| Bade new wak'd beauty spread each perfect grace | N |
| Yet when he form'd the vast stupendous whole | O |
| Shed his best bounties on the human soul | O |
| Which reason's light illumes which friendship warms | P |
| Which pity softens and which virtue charms | Q |
| Which feels the pure affections gen'rous glow | R |
| Shares others joy and bleeds for others woe | R |
| Oh never will the gen'ral Father prove | K |
| Of man forgetful man the child of love | L |
| When all those planets in their ample spheres | S |
| Have wing'd their course and roll'd their destin'd years | S |
| When the vast sun shall veil his golden light | T |
| Deep in the gloom of everlasting night | T |
| When wild destructive flames shall wrap the skies | U |
| When Chaos triumphs and when Nature dies | U |
| Man shall alone the wreck of worlds survive | V |
| Midst falling spheres immortal man shall live | V |
| The voice which bade the last dread thunders roll | O |
| Shall whisper to the good and cheer their soul | O |
| God shall himself his favour'd creature guide | W |
| Where living waters pour their blissful tide | W |
| Where the enlarg'd exulting wond'ring mind | X |
| Shall soar from weakness and from guilt refin'd | X |
| Where perfect knowledge bright with cloudless rays | Y |
| Shall gild eternity's unmeasur'd days | Y |
| Where friendship unembitter'd by distrust | Z |
| Shall in immortal bands unite the just | Z |
| Devotion rais'd to rapture breathe her strain | J |
| And love in his eternal triumph reign | J |
Helen Maria Williams
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