Laus Deo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE CCGHHG IJAKKA LLHBB MMANNA OOPQRP SSTUUT AAVWWX YYJZZA2| It is done | A |
| Clang of bell and roar of gun | A |
| Send the tidings up and down | B |
| How the belfries rock and reel | C |
| How the great guns peal on peal | C |
| Fling the joy from town to town | B |
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| Ring O bells | D |
| Every stroke exulting tells | D |
| Of the burial hour of crime | E |
| Loud and long that all may hear | F |
| Ring for every listening ear | F |
| Of Eternity and Time | E |
| - | |
| Let us kneel | C |
| God's own voice is in that peal | C |
| And this spot is holy ground | G |
| Lord forgive us What are we | H |
| That our eyes this glory see | H |
| That our ears have heard this sound | G |
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| For the Lord | I |
| On the whirlwind is abroad | J |
| In the earthquake He has spoken | A |
| He has smitten with His thunder | K |
| The iron walls asunder | K |
| And the gates of brass are broken | A |
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| Loud and long | L |
| Lift the old exulting song | L |
| Sing with Miriam by the sea | H |
| He has cast the mighty down | B |
| Horse and rider sink and drown | B |
| 'He hath triumphed gloriously ' | - |
| - | |
| Did we dare | M |
| In our agony of prayer | M |
| Ask for more than He has done | A |
| When was ever His right hand | N |
| Over any time or land | N |
| Stretched as now beneath the sun | A |
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| How they pale | O |
| Ancient myth and song and tale | O |
| In this wonder of our days | P |
| When the cruel rod of war | Q |
| Blossoms white with righteous law | R |
| And the wrath of man is praise | P |
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| Blotted out | S |
| All within and all about | S |
| Shall a fresher life begin | T |
| Freer breathe the universe | U |
| As it rolls its heavy curse | U |
| On the dead and buried sin | T |
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| It is done | A |
| In the circuit of the sun | A |
| Shall the sound thereof go forth | V |
| It shall bid the sad rejoice | W |
| It shall give the dumb a voice | W |
| It shall belt with joy the earth | X |
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| Ring and swing | Y |
| Bells of joy On morning's wing | Y |
| Sound the song of praise abroad | J |
| With a sound of broken chains | Z |
| Tell the nations that He reigns | Z |
| Who alone is Lord and God | A2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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