Centennial Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDD AEEFFGG AHHDDFF IBBGGJJ IKKIIBB ILLMMBB| I | A |
| Our fathers' God from out whose hand | B |
| The centuries fall like grains of sand | B |
| We meet to day united free | C |
| And loyal to our land and Thee | C |
| To thank Thee for the era done | D |
| And trust Thee for the opening one | D |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Here where of old by Thy design | E |
| The fathers spake that word of Thine | E |
| Whose echo is the glad refrain | F |
| Of rended bolt and falling chain | F |
| To grace our festal time from all | G |
| The zones of earth our guests we call | G |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Be with us while the New World greets | H |
| The Old World thronging all its streets | H |
| Unveiling all the triumphs won | D |
| By art or toil beneath the sun | D |
| And unto common good ordain | F |
| This rivalship of hand and brain | F |
| - | |
| IV | I |
| Thou who hast here in concord furled | B |
| The war flags of a gathered world | B |
| Beneath our Western skies fulfil | G |
| The Orient's mission of good will | G |
| And freighted with love's Golden Fleece | J |
| Send back its Argonauts of peace | J |
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| V | I |
| For art and labor met in truce | K |
| For beauty made the bride of use | K |
| We thank Thee but withal we crave | I |
| The austere virtues strong to save | I |
| The honor proof to place or gold | B |
| The manhood never bought nor sold | B |
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| VI | I |
| Oh make Thou us through centuries long | L |
| In peace secure in justice strong | L |
| Around our gift of freedom draw | M |
| The safeguards of Thy righteous law | M |
| And cast in some diviner mould | B |
| Let the new cycle shame the old | B |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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