A Cradle Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BBBB BCBC DEDE FBFB ABAB CBCB CGCG HIHI GBGB ABAB GJGJ HKHKHush my dear lie still and slumber | A |
Holy angels guard thy bed | B |
Heavenly blessings without number | A |
Gently falling on thy head | B |
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Sleep my babe thy food and raiment | B |
House and home thy friends provide | B |
All without thy care or payment | B |
All thy wants are well supplied | B |
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How much better thou'rt attended | B |
Than the Son of God could be | C |
When from heaven He descended | B |
And became a child like thee | C |
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Soft and easy is thy cradle | D |
Coarse and hard thy Saviour lay | E |
When His birthplace was a stable | D |
And His softest bed was hay | E |
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Bless egrave d babe what glorious features | F |
Spotless fair divinely bright | B |
Must He dwell with brutal creatures | F |
How could angels bear the sight | B |
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Was there nothing but a manger | A |
Curs egrave d sinners could afford | B |
To receive the heavenly stranger | A |
Did they thus affront their Lord | B |
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Soft my child I did not chide thee | C |
Though my song might sound too hard | B |
'Tis thy mother sits beside thee | C |
And her arms shall be thy guard | B |
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Yet to read the shameful story | C |
How the Jews abused their King | G |
How they served the Lord of Glory | C |
Makes me angry while I sing | G |
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See the kinder shepherds round Him | H |
Telling wonders from the sky | I |
Where they sought Him there they found Him | H |
With His Virgin mother by | I |
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See the lovely babe a dressing | G |
Lovely infant how He smiled | B |
When He wept the mother's blessing | G |
Soothed and hush'd the holy child | B |
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Lo He slumbers in His manger | A |
Where the horn egrave d oxen fed | B |
Peace my darling here 's no danger | A |
Here 's no ox anear thy bed | B |
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'Twas to save thee child from dying | G |
Save my dear from burning flame | J |
Bitter groans and endless crying | G |
That thy blest Redeemer came | J |
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May'st thou live to know and fear Him | H |
Trust and love Him all thy days | K |
Then go dwell for ever near Him | H |
See His face and sing His praise | K |
Isaac Watts
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