Psalm 107 Last Part Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDD EFGG HHII JKLL MMNN OOKK PQRR STUU KKKK| Colonies planted or Nations blessed and punished | A |
| A Psalm for New England | B |
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| When God provoked with daring crimes | C |
| Scourges the madness of the times | C |
| He turns their fields to barren sand | D |
| And dries the rivers from the land | D |
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| His word can raise the springs again | E |
| And make the withered mountains green | F |
| Send showery blessings from the skies | G |
| And harvests in the desert rise | G |
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| Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey | H |
| Or men as fierce and wild as they | H |
| He bids th' oppressed and poor repair | I |
| And builds them towns and cities there | I |
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| They sow the fields and trees they plant | J |
| Whose yearly fruit supplies their want | K |
| Their race grows up from fruitful stocks | L |
| Their wealth increases with their flocks | L |
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| Thus they are blessed but if they sin | M |
| He lets the heathen nations in | M |
| A savage crew invades their lands | N |
| Their princes die by barb'rous hands | N |
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| Their captive sons exposed to scorn | O |
| Wander unpitied and forlorn | O |
| The country lies unfenced untilled | K |
| And desolation spreads the field | K |
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| Yet if the humbled nation mourns | P |
| Again his dreadful hand he turns | Q |
| Again he makes their cities thrive | R |
| And bids the dying churches live | R |
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| The righteous with a joyful sense | S |
| Admire the works of Providence | T |
| And tongues of atheists shall no more | U |
| Blaspheme the God that saints adore | U |
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| How few with pious care record | K |
| These wondrous dealings of the Lord | K |
| But wise observers still shall find | K |
| The Lord is holy just and kind | K |
Isaac Watts
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