Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD CECE CFCF GHGH ICIC JKJB LMLM NONO PQRQ CSCS TUTU VWVW XCXC YCYC WSWS ZA2ZA2 CCCC B2C2B2C2 D2E2D2E2 F2G2H2G2 CI2CJ2 K2L2K2L2 SC2SC2

I will bring you into the wilderness of the people andA
there will I plead with you face to face Like as pleadedB
with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt soC
will I plead with you saith the Lord God Ezekiel xxC
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It is so ope thine eyes and seeC
What viewest thou all aroundE
A desert where iniquityC
And knowledge both aboundE
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In the waste howling wildernessC
The Church is wandering stillF
Because we would not onward pressC
When close to Sion's hillF
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Back to the world we faithless turnedG
And far along the wildH
With labour lost and sorrow earnedG
Our steps have been beguiledH
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Yet full before us all the whileI
The shadowing pillar staysC
The living waters brightly smileI
The eternal turrets blazeC
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Yet Heaven is raining angels' breadJ
To be our daily foodK
And fresh as when it first was shedJ
Springs forth the SAVIOUR'S bloodB
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From every region race and speechL
Believing myriads throngM
Till far as sin and sorrow reachL
Thy grace is spread alongM
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Till sweetest nature brightest artN
Their votive incense bringO
And every voice and every heartN
Own Thee their God and KingO
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All own but few alas will loveP
Too like the recreant bandQ
That with Thy patient spirit stroveR
Upon the Red sea strandQ
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O Father of long suffering graceC
Thou who hast sworn to stayS
Pleading with sinners face to faceC
Through all their devious wayS
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How shall we speak to Thee O LORDT
Or how in silence lieU
Look on us and we are abhorredT
Turn from us and we dieU
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Thy guardian fire Thy guiding cloudV
Still let them gild our wallW
Nor be our foes and Thine allowedV
To see us faint and fallW
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Too oft within this camp of ThineX
Rebellions murmurs riseC
Sin cannot bear to see Thee shineX
So awful to her eyesC
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Fain would our lawless hearts escapeY
And with the heathen beC
To worship every monstrous shapeY
In fancied darkness freeC
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Vain thought that shall not be at allW
Refuse we or obeyS
Our ears have heard the Almighty's callW
We cannot be as theyS
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We cannot hope the heathen's doomZ
To whom GOD'S Son is givenA2
Whose eyes have seen beyond the tombZ
Who have the key of HeavenA2
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Weak tremblers on the edge of woeC
Yet shrinking from true blissC
Our rest must be no rest belowC
And let our prayer be thisC
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LORD wave again Thy chastening rodB2
Till every idol throneC2
Crumble to dust and Thou O GODB2
Reign in our hearts aloneC2
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Bring all our wandering fancies homeD2
For Thou hast every spellE2
And 'mid the heathen where they roamD2
Thou knowest LORD too wellE2
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Thou know'st our service sad and hardF2
Thou know'st us fond and frailG2
Win us to be loved and sparedH2
When all the world shall failG2
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So when at last our weary daysC
Are well nigh wasted hereI2
And we can trace Thy wondrous waysC
In distance calm and clearJ2
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When in Thy love and Israel's sinK2
We read our story trueL2
We may not all too late beginK2
To wish our hopes were newL2
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Long loved long tried long spared as theyS
Unlike in this aloneC2
That by Thy grace our hearts shall stayS
For evermore Thine ownC2

John Keble



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