Andrew Rykman-s Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Andrew Rykman's dead and gone	A
You can see his leaning slate	B
In the graveyard and thereon	A
Read his name and date	B
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Trust is truer than our fears	C
Runs the legend through the moss	D
Gain is not in added years	C
Nor in death is loss	D
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Still the feet that thither trod	E
All the friendly eyes are dim	F
Only Nature now and God	E
Have a care for him	F
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There the dews of quiet fall	G
Singing birds and soft winds stray	H
Shall the tender Heart of all	G
Be less kind than they	H
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What he was and what he is	I
They who ask may haply find	J
If they read this prayer of his	I
Which he left behind	J
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Pardon Lord the lips that dare	K
Shape in words a mortal's prayer	K
Prayer that when my day is done	L
And I see its setting sun	L
Shorn and beamless cold and dim	F
Sink beneath the horizon's rim	F
When this ball of rock and clay	H
Crumbles from my feet away	H
And the solid shores of sense	M
Melt into the vague immense	M
Father I may come to Thee	N
Even with the beggar's plea	N
As the poorest of Thy poor	O
With my needs and nothing more	P
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Not as one who seeks his home	Q
With a step assured I come	R
Still behind the tread I hear	S
Of my life companion Fear	T
Still a shadow deep and vast	U
From my westering feet is cast	U
Wavering doubtful undefined	J
Never shapen nor outlined	J
From myself the fear has grown	V
And the shadow is my own	V
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Yet O Lord through all a sense	M
Of Thy tender providence	W
Stays my failing heart on Thee	N
And confirms the feeble knee	N
And at times my worn feet press	X
Spaces of cool quietness	Y
Lilied whiteness shone upon	Z
Not by light of moon or sun	L
Hours there be of inmost calm	A2
Broken but by grateful psalm	B2
When I love Thee more than fear Thee	N
And Thy blessed Christ seems near me	N
With forgiving look as when	C2
He beheld the Magdalen	L
Well I know that all things move	D2
To the spheral rhythm of love	E2
That to Thee O Lord of all	G
Nothing can of chance befall	G
Child and seraph mote and star	F2
Well Thou knowest what we are	F2
Through Thy vast creative plan	G2
Looking from the worm to man	G2
There is pity in Thine eyes	H2
But no hatred nor surprise	H2
Not in blind caprice of will	I2
Not in cunning sleight of skill	I2
Not for show of power was wrought	J2
Nature's marvel in Thy thought	J2
Never careless hand and vain	K2
Smites these chords of joy and pain	K2
No immortal selfishness	Y
Plays the game of curse and bless	X
Heaven and earth are witnesses	L2
That Thy glory goodness is	I
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Not for sport of mind and force	M2
Hast Thou made Thy universe	N2
But as atmosphere and zone	V
Of Thy loving heart alone	V
Man who walketh in a show	O2
Sees before him to and fro	O2
Shadow and illusion go	O2
All things flow and fluctuate	B
Now contract and now dilate	B
In the welter of this sea	N
Nothing stable is but Thee	N
In this whirl of swooning trance	P2
Thou alone art permanence	W
All without Thee only seems	Q2
All beside is choice of dreams	Q2
Never yet in darkest mood	R2
Doubted I that Thou wast good	S2
Nor mistook my will for fate	B
Pain of sin for heavenly hate	B
Never dreamed the gates of pearl	T2
Rise from out the burning marl	T2
Or that good can only live	U2
Of the bad conservative	V2
And through counterpoise of hell	T2
Heaven alone be possible	T2
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For myself alone I doubt	W2
All is well I know without	W2
I alone the beauty mar	F2
I alone the music jar	F2
Yet with hands by evil stained	X2
And an ear by discord pained	X2
I am groping for the keys	Y2
Of the heavenly harmonies	Y2
Still within my heart I bear	K
Love for all things good and fair	K
Hands of want or souls in pain	K2
Have not sought my door in vain	K2
I have kept my fealty good	S2
To the human brotherhood	S2
Scarcely have I asked in prayer	K
That which others might not share	K
I who hear with secret shame	Z2
Praise that paineth more than blame	Z2
Rich alone in favors lent	A3
Virtuous by accident	B3
Doubtful where I fain would rest	C3
Frailest where I seem the best	C3
Only strong for lack of test	C3
What am I that I should press	X
Special pleas of selfishness	Y
Coolly mounting into heaven	L
On my neighbor unforgiven	L
Ne'er to me howe'er disguised	D3
Comes a saint unrecognized	D3
Never fails my heart to greet	E3
Noble deed with warmer beat	E3
Halt and maimed I own not less	X
All the grace of holiness	Y
Nor through shame or self distrust	F3
Less I love the pure and just	F3
Lord forgive these words of mine	G3
What have I that is not Thine	G3
Whatsoe'er I fain would boast	H3
Needs Thy pitying pardon most	H3
Thou O Elder Brother who	I3
In Thy flesh our trial knew	I3
Thou who hast been touched by these	Y2
Our most sad infirmities	Y2
Thou alone the gulf canst span	G2
In the dual heart of man	G2
And between the soul and sense	M
Reconcile all difference	W
Change the dream of me and mine	G3
For the truth of Thee and Thine	G3
And through chaos doubt and strife	J3
Interfuse Thy calm of life	J3
Haply thus by Thee renewed	R2
In Thy borrowed goodness good	S2
Some sweet morning yet in God's	K3
Dim veonian periods	L3
Joyful I shall wake to see	N
Those I love who rest in Thee	N
And to them in Thee allied	M3
Shall my soul be satisfied	M3
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Scarcely Hope hath shaped for me	N
What the future life may be	N
Other lips may well be bold	N3
Like the publican of old	N3
I can only urge the plea	N
'Lord be merciful to me '	-
Nothing of desert I claim	Z2
Unto me belongeth shame	Z2
Not for me the crowns of gold	N3
Palms and harpings manifold	N3
Not for erring eye and feet	E3
Jasper wall and golden street	E3
What thou wilt O Father give I	O3
All is gain that I receive	P3
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If my voice I may not raise	Q3
In the elders' song of praise	Q3
If I may not sin defiled	E3
Claim my birthright as a child	E3
Suffer it that I to Thee	N
As an hired servant be	N
Let the lowliest task be mine	G3
Grateful so the work be Thine	G3
Let me find the humblest place	R3
In the shadow of Thy grace	R3
Blest to me were any spot	E3
Where temptation whispers not	E3
If there be some weaker one	L
Give me strength to help him on	Z
If a blinder soul there be	N
Let me guide him nearer Thee	N
Make my mortal dreams come true	I3
With the work I fain would do	I3
Clothe with life the weak intent	E3
Let me be the thing I meant	E3
Let me find in Thy employ	T2
Peace that dearer is than joy	T2
Out of self to love be led	E3
And to heaven acclimated	E3
Until all things sweet and good	E3
Seem my natural habitude	E3
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So we read the prayer of him	F
Who with John of Labadie	E3
Trod of old the oozy rim	F
Of the Zuyder Zee	E3
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Thus did Andrew Rykman pray	H
Are we wiser better grown	V
That we may not in our day	H
Make his prayer our own	V