Blessed Are The Dead. (from The German) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD CCEE FFGA DDHH DDAA| O how blest are ye whose toils are ended | A |
| Who through death have unto God ascended | A |
| Ye have arisen | B |
| From the cares which keep us still in prison | B |
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| We are still as in a dungeon living | C |
| Still oppressed with sorrow and misgiving | C |
| Our undertakings | D |
| Are but toils and troubles and heart breakings | D |
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| Ye meanwhile are in your chambers sleeping | C |
| Quiet and set free from all our weeping | C |
| No cross nor trial | E |
| Hinders your enjoyments with denial | E |
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| Christ has wiped away your tears for ever | F |
| Ye have that for which we still endeavour | F |
| To you are chanted | G |
| Songs which yet no mortal ear have haunted | A |
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| Ah who would not then depart with gladness | D |
| To inherit heaven for earthly sadness | D |
| Who here would languish | H |
| Longer in bewailing and in anguish | H |
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| Come O Christ and loose the chains that bind us | D |
| Lead us forth and cast this world behind us | D |
| With thee the Anointed | A |
| Finds the soul its joy and rest appointed | A |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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