The Familist's Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHIHI JBKBLBLB MNMNLOLO BBBBBBBB BBBBPQPG RSTSLOLO UBVBWXYX ZBZBCXAX SA2SA2EOEO B2C2B2C2BOBO| Father to Thy suffering poor | A |
| Strength and grace and faith impart | B |
| And with Thy own love restore | C |
| Comfort to the broken heart | B |
| Oh the failing ones confirm | D |
| With a holier strength of zeal | E |
| Give Thou not the feeble worm | D |
| Helpless to the spoiler's heel | E |
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| Father for Thy holy sake | F |
| We are spoiled and hunted thus | G |
| Joyful for Thy truth we take | F |
| Bonds and burthens unto us | G |
| Poor and weak and robbed of all | H |
| Weary with our daily task | I |
| That Thy truth may never fall | H |
| Through our weakness Lord we ask | I |
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| Round our fired and wasted homes | J |
| Flits the forest bird unscared | B |
| And at noon the wild beast comes | K |
| Where our frugal meal was shared | B |
| For the song of praises there | L |
| Shrieks the crow the livelong day | B |
| For the sound of evening prayer | L |
| Howls the evil beast of prey | B |
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| Sweet the songs we loved to sing | M |
| Underneath Thy holy sky | N |
| Words and tones that used to bring | M |
| Tears of joy in every eye | N |
| Dear the wrestling hours of prayer | L |
| When we gathered knee to knee | O |
| Blameless youth and hoary hair | L |
| Bowed O God alone to Thee | O |
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| As Thine early children Lord | B |
| Shared their wealth and daily bread | B |
| Even so with one accord | B |
| We in love each other fed | B |
| Not with us the miser's hoard | B |
| Not with us his grasping hand | B |
| Equal round a common board | B |
| Drew our meek and brother band | B |
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| Safe our quiet Eden lay | B |
| When the war whoop stirred the land | B |
| And the Indian turned away | B |
| From our home his bloody hand | B |
| Well that forest ranger saw | P |
| That the burthen and the curse | Q |
| Of the white man's cruel law | P |
| Rested also upon us | G |
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| Torn apart and driven forth | R |
| To our toiling hard and long | S |
| Father from the dust of earth | T |
| Lift we still our grateful song | S |
| Grateful that in bonds we share | L |
| In Thy love which maketh free | O |
| Joyful that the wrongs we bear | L |
| Draw us nearer Lord to Thee | O |
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| Grateful that where'er we toil | U |
| By Wachuset's wooded side | B |
| On Nantucket's sea worn isle | V |
| Or by wild Neponset's tide | B |
| Still in spirit we are near | W |
| And our evening hymns which rise | X |
| Separate and discordant here | Y |
| Meet and mingle in the skies | X |
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| Let the scoffer scorn and mock | Z |
| Let the proud and evil priest | B |
| Rob the needy of his flock | Z |
| For his wine cup and his feast | B |
| Redden not Thy bolts in store | C |
| Through the blackness of Thy skies | X |
| For the sighing of the poor | A |
| Wilt Thou not at length arise | X |
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| Worn and wasted oh how long | S |
| Shall thy trodden poor complain | A2 |
| In Thy name they bear the wrong | S |
| In Thy cause the bonds of pain | A2 |
| Melt oppression's heart of steel | E |
| Let the haughty priesthood see | O |
| And their blinded followers feel | E |
| That in us they mock at Thee | O |
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| In Thy time O Lord of hosts | B2 |
| Stretch abroad that hand to save | C2 |
| Which of old on Egypt's coasts | B2 |
| Smote apart the Red Sea's wave | C2 |
| Lead us from this evil land | B |
| From the spoiler set us free | O |
| And once more our gathered band | B |
| Heart to heart shall worship Thee | O |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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