The Nativity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD CCEECCFFCCGHBBAIJJKK LL MMNNCCDDOO| Peace and to all the world sure One | A |
| And He the Prince of Peace hath none | A |
| He travels to be born and then | B |
| Is born to travel more again | B |
| Poor Galilee thou canst not be | C |
| The place for His nativity | C |
| His restless mother's called away | D |
| And not delivered till she pay | D |
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| A tax 'tis so still we can see | C |
| The church thrive in her misery | C |
| And like her Head at Bethlem rise | E |
| When she oppressed with troubles lies | E |
| Rise should all fall we cannot be | C |
| In more extremities than He | C |
| Great Type of passions come what will | F |
| Thy grief exceeds all copies still | F |
| Thou cam'st from heaven to earth that we | C |
| Might go from earth to heaven with Thee | C |
| And though Thou foundest no welcome here | G |
| Thou didst provide us mansions there | H |
| A stable was Thy court and when | B |
| Men turned to beasts beasts would be men | B |
| They were Thy courtiers others none | A |
| And their poor manger was Thy throne | I |
| No swaddling silks Thy limbs did fold | J |
| Though Thou couldst turn Thy rays to gold | J |
| No rockers waited on Thy birth | K |
| No cradles stirred nor songs of mirth | K |
| But her chaste lap and sacred breast | L |
| Which lodged Thee first did give Thee rest | L |
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| But stay what light is that doth stream | M |
| And drop here in a gilded beam | M |
| It is Thy star runs page and brings | N |
| Thy tributary Eastern kings | N |
| Lord grant some light to us that we | C |
| May with them find the way to Thee | C |
| Behold what mists eclipse the day | D |
| How dark it is shed down one ray | D |
| To guide us out of this sad night | O |
| And say once more Let there be light | O |
Henry Vaughan
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