Hymn For The Opening Of Plymouth Church, St. Paul, Minnesota Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IJAA| All things are Thine no gift have we | A |
| Lord of all gifts to offer Thee | A |
| And hence with grateful hearts to day | B |
| Thy own before Thy feet we lay | B |
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| Thy will was in the builders' thought | C |
| Thy hand unseen amidst us wrought | C |
| Through mortal motive scheme and plan | D |
| Thy wise eternal purpose ran | D |
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| No lack Thy perfect fulness knew | E |
| For human needs and longings grew | E |
| This house of prayer this home of rest | F |
| In the fair garden of the West | F |
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| In weakness and in want we call | G |
| On Thee for whom the heavens are small | G |
| Thy glory is Thy children's good | H |
| Thy joy Thy tender Fatherhood | H |
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| O Father deign these walls to bless | I |
| Fill with Thy love their emptiness | J |
| And let their door a gateway be | A |
| To lead us from ourselves to Thee | A |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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