Paraphrases From Scripture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The day is thine the night also is thine thou hast prepared theA
light and the sunB
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Thou hast set all the borders of the earth thou hast made summer andC
winterD
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PSALM lxxivE
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My God all nature owns thy swayF
Thou giv'st the night and thou the dayF
When all thy lov'd creation wakesG
When morning rich in lustre breaksG
And bathes in dew the op'ning flowerD
To thee we owe her fragrant hourD
And when she pours her choral songH
Her melodies to thee belongH
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Or when in paler tints array'dI
The evening slowly spreads her shadeI
That soothing shade that grateful gloomJ
Can more than day's enliv'ning bloomJ
Still every fond and vain desireD
And calmer purer thoughts inspireK
From earth the pensive spirit freeL
And lead the soften'd heart to TheeL
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In every scene thy hands have drestI
In every form by thee imprestI
Upon the mountain's awful headI
Or where the shelt'ring woods are spreadI
In every note that swells the galeM
Or tuneful stream that cheers the valeM
The cavern's depth or echoing groveE
A voice is heard of praise and loveE
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As o'er thy work the seasons rollN
And sooth with change of bliss the soulN
Oh never may their smiling trainO
Pass o'er the human scene in vainO
But oft as on the charm we gazeP
Attune the wond'ring soul to praiseP
And be the joys that most we prizeQ
The joys that from thy favour riseQ
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Can a woman forget her sucking child that she shouldI
not have compassion on the son of her womb YeaF
they may forget yet will I not forget theeL
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ISAIAH xlixQ
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Heaven speaks Oh Nature listen and rejoiceQ
Oh spread from pole to pole this gracious voiceQ
'Say every breast of human frame that provesQ
'The boundless force with which a parent lovesQ
'Say can a mother from her yearning heartI
'Bid the soft image of her child departI
'She whom strong instinct arms with strength to bearR
'All forms of ill to shield that dearest careR
'She who with anguish stung with madness wildI
'Will rush on death to save her threaten'd childI
'All selfish feelings banish'd from her breastI
'Her life one aim to make another's blestI
'When her vex'd infant to her bosom clingsQ
'When round her neck his eager arms he flingsQ
'Breathes to her list'ning soul his melting sighE
'And lifts suffus'd with tears his asking eyeE
'Will she for all ambition can attainO
'The charms of pleasure or the lures of gainO
'Betray strong Nature's feelings will she proveE
'Cold to the claims of duty and of loveE
'But should the mother from her yearning heartI
'Bid the soft image of her child departI
'When the vex'd infant to her bosom clingsQ
'When round her neck his eager arms he flingsQ
'Should she unpitying hear his melting sighE
'And view unmov'd the tear that fills his eyeE
'Should she for all ambition can attainO
'The charms of pleasure or the lures of gainO
'Betray strong Nature's feelings should she proveE
'Cold to the claims of duty and of loveE
'Yet never will the God whose word gave birthS
'To yon illumin'd orbs and this fair earthS
'Who thro' the boundless depths of trackless spaceQ
'Bade new wak'd beauty spread each perfect graceQ
'Yet when he form'd the vast stupendous wholeN
'Shed his best bounties on the human soulN
'Which reason's light illumes which friendship warmsQ
'Which pity softens and which virtue charmsQ
'Which feels the pure affections gen'rous glowT
'Shares others joy and bleeds for others woeT
'Oh never will the gen'ral Father proveE
'Of man forgetful man the child of love '-
When all those planets in their ample spheresQ
Have wing'd their course and roll'd their destin'd yearsQ
When the vast sun shall veil his golden lightI
Deep in the gloom of everlasting nightI
When wild destructive flames shall wrap the skiesQ
When Chaos triumphs and when Nature diesQ
Man shall alone the wreck of worlds surviveE
Midst falling spheres immortal man shall liveE
The voice which bade the last dread thunders rollN
Shall whisper to the good and cheer their soulN
God shall himself his favour'd creature guideI
Where living waters pour their blissful tideI
Where the enlarg'd exulting wond'ring mindI
Shall soar from weakness and from guilt refin'dI
Where perfect knowledge bright with cloudless raysQ
Shall gild eternity's unmeasur'd daysQ
Where friendship unembitter'd by distrustI
Shall in immortal bands unite the justI
Devotion rais'd to rapture breathe her strainO
And love in his eternal triumph reignO
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Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to themU
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MATT viiE
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Precept divine to earth in mercy givenB
O sacred rule of action worthy heavenB
Whose pitying love ordain'd the bless'd commandI
To bind our nature in a firmer bandI
Enforce each human suff'rer's strong appealV
And teach the selfish breast what others feelV
Wert thou the guide of life mankind might knowT
A soft exemption from the worst of woeT
No more the powerful would the weak oppressQ
But tyrants learn the luxury to blessQ
No more would slav'ry bind a hopeless trainO
Of human victims in her galling chainO
Mercy the hard the cruel heart would moveE
To soften mis'ry by the deeds of JoveE
And av'rice from his hoarded treasures giveE
Unask'd the liberal boon that want might liveE
The impious tongue of falshood then would ceaseQ
To blast with dark suggestions virtue's peaceQ
No more would spleen or passion banish restI
And plant a pang in fond affection's breastI
By one harsh word one alter'd look destroyW
Her peace and wither every op'ning joyW
Scarce can her tongue the captious wrong explainO
The slight offence which gives so deep a painO
Th' affected ease that slights her starting tearR
The words whose coldness kills from lips so dearX
The hand she loves alone can point the dartI
Whose hidden sting could wound no other heartI
These of all pains the sharpest we endureY
The breast which now inflicts would spring to cureY
No more deserted genius then would flyE
To breathe in solitude his hopeless sighE
No more would Fortune's partial smile debaseQ
The spirit rich in intellectual graceQ
Who views unmov'd from scenes where pleasures bloomJ
The flame of genius sunk in mis'ry's gloomJ
The soul heav'n form'd to soar by want deprestI
Nor heeds the wrongs that pierce a kindred breastI
Thou righteous Law whose clear and useful lightI
Sheds on the mind a ray divinely brightI
Condensing in one rule whate'er the sageZ
Has proudly taught in many a labour'd pageZ
Bid every heart thy hallow'd voice revereX
To justice sacred and to nature dearX
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That thine alms may be in secretI
and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openlyL
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Matt VIE
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HEAR heav'n's pure dictates ye presumptuous crowdI
Be kind ye selfish and abash'd ye proudI
Nor think the ostentatious act which drawsQ
The incense of ill judging man's applauseQ
The boon obtruded on the gazer's sightI
Outweighs in virtue's scale the widow's miteI
Claim not in His divine rewards a partI
Who knows the motive and who views the heartI
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Be yours to hear the empty accents rollN
Of praise rejected by the conscious soulN
But ye who when to succour want ye flyE
Have never paus'd to wish a witness nighE
Have mingled with your alms the unseen tearR
The secret sigh which heav'n alone could hearA2
Be yours when life shall reach the closing sceneB2
To read its record with a hope sereneB2
And yours to listen while a voice of loveE
Proclaims your bright inheritance aboveE

Helen Maria Williams



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