Hymn For The House Of Worship At Georgetown, Erected In Memory Of A Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE FAFA CGCG HIHI JKJK| Thou dwellest not O Lord of all | A |
| In temples which thy children raise | B |
| Our work to thine is mean and small | A |
| And brief to thy eternal days | B |
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| Forgive the weakness and the pride | C |
| If marred thereby our gift may be | D |
| For love at least has sanctified | C |
| The altar that we rear to thee | D |
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| The heart and not the hand has wrought | C |
| From sunken base to tower above | E |
| The image of a tender thought | C |
| The memory of a deathless love | E |
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| And though should never sound of speech | F |
| Or organ echo from its wall | A |
| Its stones would pious lessons teach | F |
| Its shade in benedictions fall | A |
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| Here should the dove of peace be found | C |
| And blessings and not curses given | G |
| Nor strife profane nor hatred wound | C |
| The mingled loves of earth and heaven | G |
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| Thou who didst soothe with dying breath | H |
| The dear one watching by Thy cross | I |
| Forgetful of the pains of death | H |
| In sorrow for her mighty loss | I |
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| In memory of that tender claim | J |
| O Mother born the offering take | K |
| And make it worthy of Thy name | J |
| And bless it for a mother's sake | K |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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