Psalm Xc Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG HHII JJKK FFLL MMAA NNOOAAPP QR ST UUVV FFWW XYZZ A2A2B2C2 FFD2D2| O God the everlasting One | A |
| In Thee alone from sire to son | A |
| Through generations all our race | B |
| Hath found a sure abiding place | B |
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| Before the mountains rose from earth | C |
| Before the world itself had birth | C |
| Ere yet the heav'ns were spread abroad | D |
| Thou wast and art eternal God | E |
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| But man the creature of Thy breath | F |
| Thou humblest to the deeps of death | F |
| Few days and sad thou giv'st and then | G |
| Return Thou say'st ye sons of men | G |
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| For lo the space of thousand years | H |
| To Thine unchanging eye appears | H |
| As yesterday to mortal sight | I |
| When passed or as a watch of night | I |
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| As comes a flood on those who sleep | J |
| So over man Thy wrath doth sweep | J |
| As fades the freshness of the grass | K |
| So swiftly doth his vigour pass | K |
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| As grass at morn he flourisheth | F |
| Cut down at eve he lies in death | F |
| Like flame Thy wrath against us burns | L |
| And all our life to anguish turns | L |
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| Thou our iniquities hast set | M |
| Before Thy face unpardon'd yet | M |
| Our secret sins in darkness done | A |
| Thy light reveals them ev'ry one | A |
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| And all our days beneath the blast | N |
| Of Thy consuming wrath are past | N |
| Our barren lives from year to year | O |
| Ev'n as an idle tale appear | O |
| In seventy years our race is run | A |
| And what if here and there an one | A |
| Through greater strength four score attains | P |
| He only added sorrow gains | P |
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| And soon the longest life is o'er | Q |
| We pass away and are no more | R |
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| Oh who Thine anger can express | S |
| Thine ire is as Thine awfulness | T |
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| Lord teach us so our days to count | U |
| That as we mark their small amount | U |
| Our hearts we may the more apply | V |
| To learn Thy wisdom ere we die | V |
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| Return Oh God How long wilt Thou | F |
| Thy grace withhold Oh even now | F |
| In mercy hear Thy servant's voice | W |
| That all our days we may rejoice | W |
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| According as the days have been | X |
| Wherein we have but sorrow seen | Y |
| According to our years of ill | Z |
| Do Thou our lives with gladness fill | Z |
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| Give Thou to us Thy works to know | A2 |
| Thy glory to our children show | A2 |
| And on Thy servants let there rest | B2 |
| The beauty of the Holiest | C2 |
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| To all the work we do on earth | F |
| Give Thou O Lord enduring worth | F |
| Yea that our handwork may endure | D2 |
| Do Thou Eternal make it sure | D2 |
James Brunton Stephens
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