Paraphrases From Scripture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD E FFGGDDHH IIJJDKLL IIIIMMEE NNOOPPQQ IFL Q QQQQIIRRIIIIQQEEOOEE IIQQEEOOEESSQQNNQQTT E QQIIQQEENNIIIIQQIIOO U E BBIIVVTTQQOOEEEEQQII WWOORXIIYYEEQQJJIIII ZZXX IL E IIQQIIII NNEERA2B2B2EEThe day is thine the night also is thine thou hast prepared the | A |
light and the sun | B |
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Thou hast set all the borders of the earth thou hast made summer and | C |
winter | D |
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PSALM lxxiv | E |
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My God all nature owns thy sway | F |
Thou giv'st the night and thou the day | F |
When all thy lov'd creation wakes | G |
When morning rich in lustre breaks | G |
And bathes in dew the op'ning flower | D |
To thee we owe her fragrant hour | D |
And when she pours her choral song | H |
Her melodies to thee belong | H |
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Or when in paler tints array'd | I |
The evening slowly spreads her shade | I |
That soothing shade that grateful gloom | J |
Can more than day's enliv'ning bloom | J |
Still every fond and vain desire | D |
And calmer purer thoughts inspire | K |
From earth the pensive spirit free | L |
And lead the soften'd heart to Thee | L |
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In every scene thy hands have drest | I |
In every form by thee imprest | I |
Upon the mountain's awful head | I |
Or where the shelt'ring woods are spread | I |
In every note that swells the gale | M |
Or tuneful stream that cheers the vale | M |
The cavern's depth or echoing grove | E |
A voice is heard of praise and love | E |
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As o'er thy work the seasons roll | N |
And sooth with change of bliss the soul | N |
Oh never may their smiling train | O |
Pass o'er the human scene in vain | O |
But oft as on the charm we gaze | P |
Attune the wond'ring soul to praise | P |
And be the joys that most we prize | Q |
The joys that from thy favour rise | Q |
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Can a woman forget her sucking child that she should | I |
not have compassion on the son of her womb Yea | F |
they may forget yet will I not forget thee | L |
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ISAIAH xlix | Q |
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Heaven speaks Oh Nature listen and rejoice | Q |
Oh spread from pole to pole this gracious voice | Q |
'Say every breast of human frame that proves | Q |
'The boundless force with which a parent loves | Q |
'Say can a mother from her yearning heart | I |
'Bid the soft image of her child depart | I |
'She whom strong instinct arms with strength to bear | R |
'All forms of ill to shield that dearest care | R |
'She who with anguish stung with madness wild | I |
'Will rush on death to save her threaten'd child | I |
'All selfish feelings banish'd from her breast | I |
'Her life one aim to make another's blest | I |
'When her vex'd infant to her bosom clings | Q |
'When round her neck his eager arms he flings | Q |
'Breathes to her list'ning soul his melting sigh | E |
'And lifts suffus'd with tears his asking eye | E |
'Will she for all ambition can attain | O |
'The charms of pleasure or the lures of gain | O |
'Betray strong Nature's feelings will she prove | E |
'Cold to the claims of duty and of love | E |
'But should the mother from her yearning heart | I |
'Bid the soft image of her child depart | I |
'When the vex'd infant to her bosom clings | Q |
'When round her neck his eager arms he flings | Q |
'Should she unpitying hear his melting sigh | E |
'And view unmov'd the tear that fills his eye | E |
'Should she for all ambition can attain | O |
'The charms of pleasure or the lures of gain | O |
'Betray strong Nature's feelings should she prove | E |
'Cold to the claims of duty and of love | E |
'Yet never will the God whose word gave birth | S |
'To yon illumin'd orbs and this fair earth | S |
'Who thro' the boundless depths of trackless space | Q |
'Bade new wak'd beauty spread each perfect grace | Q |
'Yet when he form'd the vast stupendous whole | N |
'Shed his best bounties on the human soul | N |
'Which reason's light illumes which friendship warms | Q |
'Which pity softens and which virtue charms | Q |
'Which feels the pure affections gen'rous glow | T |
'Shares others joy and bleeds for others woe | T |
'Oh never will the gen'ral Father prove | E |
'Of man forgetful man the child of love ' | - |
When all those planets in their ample spheres | Q |
Have wing'd their course and roll'd their destin'd years | Q |
When the vast sun shall veil his golden light | I |
Deep in the gloom of everlasting night | I |
When wild destructive flames shall wrap the skies | Q |
When Chaos triumphs and when Nature dies | Q |
Man shall alone the wreck of worlds survive | E |
Midst falling spheres immortal man shall live | E |
The voice which bade the last dread thunders roll | N |
Shall whisper to the good and cheer their soul | N |
God shall himself his favour'd creature guide | I |
Where living waters pour their blissful tide | I |
Where the enlarg'd exulting wond'ring mind | I |
Shall soar from weakness and from guilt refin'd | I |
Where perfect knowledge bright with cloudless rays | Q |
Shall gild eternity's unmeasur'd days | Q |
Where friendship unembitter'd by distrust | I |
Shall in immortal bands unite the just | I |
Devotion rais'd to rapture breathe her strain | O |
And love in his eternal triumph reign | O |
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Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them | U |
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MATT vii | E |
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Precept divine to earth in mercy given | B |
O sacred rule of action worthy heaven | B |
Whose pitying love ordain'd the bless'd command | I |
To bind our nature in a firmer band | I |
Enforce each human suff'rer's strong appeal | V |
And teach the selfish breast what others feel | V |
Wert thou the guide of life mankind might know | T |
A soft exemption from the worst of woe | T |
No more the powerful would the weak oppress | Q |
But tyrants learn the luxury to bless | Q |
No more would slav'ry bind a hopeless train | O |
Of human victims in her galling chain | O |
Mercy the hard the cruel heart would move | E |
To soften mis'ry by the deeds of Jove | E |
And av'rice from his hoarded treasures give | E |
Unask'd the liberal boon that want might live | E |
The impious tongue of falshood then would cease | Q |
To blast with dark suggestions virtue's peace | Q |
No more would spleen or passion banish rest | I |
And plant a pang in fond affection's breast | I |
By one harsh word one alter'd look destroy | W |
Her peace and wither every op'ning joy | W |
Scarce can her tongue the captious wrong explain | O |
The slight offence which gives so deep a pain | O |
Th' affected ease that slights her starting tear | R |
The words whose coldness kills from lips so dear | X |
The hand she loves alone can point the dart | I |
Whose hidden sting could wound no other heart | I |
These of all pains the sharpest we endure | Y |
The breast which now inflicts would spring to cure | Y |
No more deserted genius then would fly | E |
To breathe in solitude his hopeless sigh | E |
No more would Fortune's partial smile debase | Q |
The spirit rich in intellectual grace | Q |
Who views unmov'd from scenes where pleasures bloom | J |
The flame of genius sunk in mis'ry's gloom | J |
The soul heav'n form'd to soar by want deprest | I |
Nor heeds the wrongs that pierce a kindred breast | I |
Thou righteous Law whose clear and useful light | I |
Sheds on the mind a ray divinely bright | I |
Condensing in one rule whate'er the sage | Z |
Has proudly taught in many a labour'd page | Z |
Bid every heart thy hallow'd voice revere | X |
To justice sacred and to nature dear | X |
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That thine alms may be in secret | I |
and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly | L |
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Matt VI | E |
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HEAR heav'n's pure dictates ye presumptuous crowd | I |
Be kind ye selfish and abash'd ye proud | I |
Nor think the ostentatious act which draws | Q |
The incense of ill judging man's applause | Q |
The boon obtruded on the gazer's sight | I |
Outweighs in virtue's scale the widow's mite | I |
Claim not in His divine rewards a part | I |
Who knows the motive and who views the heart | I |
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Be yours to hear the empty accents roll | N |
Of praise rejected by the conscious soul | N |
But ye who when to succour want ye fly | E |
Have never paus'd to wish a witness nigh | E |
Have mingled with your alms the unseen tear | R |
The secret sigh which heav'n alone could hear | A2 |
Be yours when life shall reach the closing scene | B2 |
To read its record with a hope serene | B2 |
And yours to listen while a voice of love | E |
Proclaims your bright inheritance above | E |
Helen Maria Williams
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