Hymn For My Brother's Ordination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIH BJGJ KGKG| Christ to the young man said 'Yet one thing more | A |
| If thou wouldst perfect be | B |
| Sell all thou hast and give it to the poor | C |
| And come and follow me ' | D |
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| Within this temple Christ again unseen | E |
| Those sacred words hath said | F |
| And his invisible hands to day have been | G |
| Laid on a young man's head | F |
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| And evermore beside him on his way | H |
| The unseen Christ shall move | I |
| That he may lean upon his arm and say | H |
| 'Dost thou dear Lord approve ' | - |
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| Beside him at the marriage feast shall be | B |
| To make the scene more fair | J |
| Beside him in the dark Gethsemane | G |
| Of pain and midnight prayer | J |
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| O holy trust O endless sense of rest | K |
| Like the beloved John | G |
| To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast | K |
| And thus to journey on | G |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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