For Ever With The Lord! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LBMB NONO| 'For ever with the Lord ' | A |
| Amen so let it be | B |
| Life from the dead is in that word | C |
| 'Tis immortality | B |
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| Here in the body pent | D |
| Absent from Him I roam | E |
| Yet nightly pitch my moving tent | D |
| A day's march nearer home | E |
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| My father's house on high | F |
| Home of my soul how near | G |
| At times to faith's foreseeing eye | F |
| Thy golden gates appear | G |
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| In darkness as in light | H |
| Hidden alike from view | I |
| I sleep I wake within his sight | H |
| Who looks existence through | I |
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| From the dim hour of birth | J |
| Through every changing state | K |
| Of mortal pilgrimage on earth | J |
| Till its appointed date | K |
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| All that I am have been | L |
| All that I yet may be | B |
| He sees at once as He hath seen | M |
| And shall for ever see | B |
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| Be Thou at my right hand | N |
| Then can I never fail | O |
| Uphold Thou me and I shall stand | N |
| Fight and I must prevail | O |
James Montgomery
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