Lines Written On A Survey Of The Heavens, In The Morning Before Daybreak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFCGAHICJKCC DJLCCCLMNOIPQRCC STUCVUWUUX JCYZA2UUXB2C2UPED2 E2CF2CPCUG2H2CC2I2| Ye many twinkling stars who yet do hold | A |
| Your brilliant places in the sable vault | B |
| Of night's dominions Planets and central orbs | C |
| Of other systems big as the burning sun | D |
| Which lights this nether globe yet to our eye | E |
| Small as the glowworm's lamp To you I raise | C |
| My lowly orisons while all bewilder'd | F |
| My vision strays o'er your ethereal hosts | C |
| Too vast too boundless for our narrow mind | G |
| Warp'd with low prejudices to unfold | A |
| And sagely comprehend Thence higher soaring | H |
| Through ye I raise my solemn thoughts to Him | I |
| The mighty Founder of this wondrous maze | C |
| The great Creator Him who now sublime | J |
| Wrapt in the solitary amplitude | K |
| Of boundless space above the rolling spheres | C |
| Sits on his silent throne and meditates | C |
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| The angelic hosts in their inferior Heaven | D |
| Hymn to the golden harps his praise sublime | J |
| Repeating loud The Lord our God is great | L |
| In varied harmonies The glorious sounds | C |
| Roll o'er the air serene The AElig olian spheres | C |
| Harping along their viewless boundaries | C |
| Catch the full note and cry The Lord is great | L |
| Responding to the Seraphim O'er all | M |
| From orb to orb to the remotest verge | N |
| Of the created world the sound is borne | O |
| Till the whole universe is full of Him | I |
| Oh 'tis this heavenly harmony which now | P |
| In fancy strikes upon my listening ear | Q |
| And thrills my inmost soul It bids me smile | R |
| On the vain world and all its bustling cares | C |
| And gives a shadowy glimpse of future bliss | C |
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| Oh what is man when at ambition's height | S |
| What even are kings when balanced in the scale | T |
| Of these stupendous worlds Almighty God | U |
| Thou the dread author of these wondrous works | C |
| Say canst thou cast on me poor passing worm | V |
| One look of kind benevolence Thou canst | U |
| For Thou art full of universal love | W |
| And in thy boundless goodness wilt impart | U |
| Thy beams as well to me as to the proud | U |
| The pageant insects of a glittering hour | X |
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| Oh when reflecting on these truths sublime | J |
| How insignificant do all the joys | C |
| The gaudes and honours of the world appear | Y |
| How vain ambition Why has my wakeful lamp | Z |
| Outwatch'd the slow paced night Why on the page | A2 |
| The schoolman's labour'd page have I employ'd | U |
| The hours devoted by the world to rest | U |
| And needful to recruit exhausted nature | X |
| Say can the voice of narrow Fame repay | B2 |
| The loss of health or can the hope of glory | C2 |
| Lend a new throb into my languid heart | U |
| Cool even now my feverish aching brow | P |
| Relume the fires of this deep sunken eye | E |
| Or paint new colours on this pallid cheek | D2 |
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| Say foolish one can that unbodied fame | E2 |
| For which thou barterest health and happiness | C |
| Say can it soothe the slumbers of the grave | F2 |
| Give a new zest to bliss or chase the pangs | C |
| Of everlasting punishment condign | P |
| Alas how vain are mortal man's desires | C |
| How fruitless his pursuits Eternal God | U |
| Guide thou my footsteps in the way of truth | G2 |
| And oh assist me so to live on earth | H2 |
| That I may die in peace and claim a place | C |
| In thy high dwelling All but this is folly | C2 |
| The vain illusions of deceitful life | I2 |
Henry Kirk White
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