Psalm 107 Last Part Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDD EFGG HHII JKLL MMNN OOKK PQRR STUU KKKKColonies 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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