The Dedication Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BBCCAADDEEFGHH BBIICCJJKKLLMMBB CCNNOOPPBBQQBBQQ E EARESTUVS| The Son of the living GOD and the sacred | A |
| Virgin Mary | B |
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| I | - |
| MY God Thou that didst die for me | B |
| These Thy death's fruits I offer Thee | B |
| Death that to me was life and light | C |
| But dark and deep pangs to Thy sight | C |
| Some drops of Thy all quick'ning blood | A |
| Fell on my heart those made it bud | A |
| And put forth thus though Lord before | D |
| The ground was curs'd and void of store | D |
| Indeed I had some here to hire | E |
| Which long resisted Thy desire | E |
| That ston'd Thy servants and did move | F |
| To have Thee murder'd for Thy love | G |
| But Lord I have expell'd them and so bent | H |
| Beg Thou wouldst take Thy tenant's rent | H |
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| II | - |
| Dear Lord 'tis finished and now he | B |
| That copied it presents it Thee | B |
| 'Twas thine first and to Thee returns | I |
| From Thee it shin'd though here it burns | I |
| If the Sun rise on rocks is't right | C |
| To call it their inherent light | C |
| No nor can I say this is mine | J |
| For dearest Jesus 'tis all Thine | J |
| As Thy clothes when Thou with clothes wert clad | K |
| Both light from Thee and virtue had | K |
| And now as then within this place | L |
| Thou to poor rags dost still give grace | L |
| This is the earnest Thy love sheds | M |
| The candle shining on some heads | M |
| Till at Thy charges they shall be | B |
| Cloth'd all with immortality | B |
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| III | - |
| My dear Redeemer the world's light | C |
| And life too and my heart's delight | C |
| For all Thy mercies and Thy truth | N |
| Show'd to me in my sinful youth | N |
| For my sad failings and my wild | O |
| Murmurings at Thee when most mild | O |
| For all my secret faults and each | P |
| Frequent relapse and wilful breach | P |
| For all designs meant against Thee | B |
| And ev'ry publish'd vanity | B |
| Which Thou divinely hast forgiven | Q |
| While Thy blood wash'd me white as heaven | Q |
| I nothing have to give to Thee | B |
| But this Thy own gift given to me | B |
| Refuse it not for now Thy token | Q |
| Can tell Thee where a heart is broken | Q |
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| REVEL CAP I VER | E |
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| Unto him that loved us and washed us from our | E |
| sins in His own blood | A |
| And hath made us kings and priests unto God and | R |
| His Father to Him be glory and dominion for ever | E |
| and ever Amen | S |
| Behold He cometh with clouds and every eye shall | T |
| see Him and they also which pierced Him and all | U |
| kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him even | V |
| so Amen | S |
Henry Vaughan
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