For My Sake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCD EFEF GHGH EFEF IJIJ KBKB GHGH| Written in aid of the Children's Hospital | A |
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| MATTHEW XXV | B |
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| Inasmuch as ye gave ear unto the sighing | C |
| Of the least of these the children of my care | D |
| Of your love from death redeemed them or in dying | C |
| Stood between them and the shadow of despair | D |
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| Inasmuch as when the little ones did languish | E |
| Ye put forth the hand to make their burdens light | F |
| Inasmuch as when they lay on beds of anguish | E |
| Ye were with them in the watches of the night | F |
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| All the joy ye brought to light when sorrow hid it | G |
| Now awaits you an exceeding great reward | H |
| As ye did it unto these to ME ye did it | G |
| Enter ye into the joy of your Lord | H |
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| Lord when sought we out the children that did languish | E |
| When put forth the hand to make their burdens light | F |
| Lord we wist not when they lay on beds of anguish | E |
| And we slept throughout the watches of the night | F |
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| For our lives were full of trouble and of labour | I |
| And the night followed hard upon the day | J |
| Had we lingered with the children of our neighbour | I |
| Our own little ones had perished by the way | J |
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| Inasmuch as though ye might not touch or tend them | K |
| Ye were with them in your love to heal and save | B |
| And were hands and feet to those who did befriend them | K |
| By the gold and by the silver that ye gave | B |
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| Find your treasure where your ransomed ones have hid it | G |
| Take it back a thousandfold for your reward | H |
| As you did it unto these to ME ye did it | G |
| Enter ye into the joy of your Lord | H |
James Brunton Stephens
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