We May Not Climb The Heavenly Steeps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE AFAG DHDH IJIJ EKEK| We may not climb the heavenly steeps | A |
| To bring the Lord Christ down | B |
| In vain we search the lowest deeps | A |
| For Him who fills Heaven's throne | C |
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| But to the contrite spirit yet | D |
| A present help is He | E |
| And faith has yet its Olivet | D |
| And love its Galilee | E |
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| The healing of His seamless dress | A |
| Is by our beds of pain | F |
| We touch Him in life's throng and press | A |
| And we are whole again | G |
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| Through Him the first fond prayers are said | D |
| Our lips of childhood frame | H |
| The last low whispers of our dead | D |
| Are burdened with His Name | H |
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| O Lord and Saviour of us all | I |
| Whate'er our name or sign | J |
| We own Thy sway we hear Thy call | I |
| And form our lives by Thine | J |
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| We faintly hear we dimly see | E |
| In differing phrase we pray | K |
| But dim or clear we own in Thee | E |
| The Life the Truth the Way | K |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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