Fifteenth Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDDC EFEFGGGF HIHIJJJI KIKILLLI MBMBNNNB OMOMPPPM MQMQMMMQ| Consider the lilies of the field how they grow St Matthew vi | A |
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| Sweet nurslings of the vernal skies | B |
| Bathed in soft airs and fed with dew | C |
| What more than magic in you lies | B |
| To fill the heart's fond view | C |
| In childhood's sports companions gay | D |
| In sorrow on Life's downward way | D |
| How soothing in our last decay | D |
| Memorials prompt and true | C |
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| Relics ye are of Eden's bowers | E |
| As pure as fragrant and as fair | F |
| As when ye crowned the sunshine hours | E |
| Of happy wanderers there | F |
| Fall'n all beside the world of life | G |
| How is it stained with fear and strife | G |
| In Reason's world what storms are rife | G |
| What passions range and glare | F |
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| But cheerful and unchanged the while | H |
| Your first and perfect form ye show | I |
| The same that won Eve's matron smile | H |
| In the world's opening glow | I |
| The stars of heaven a course are taught | J |
| Too high above our human thought | J |
| Ye may be found if ye are sought | J |
| And as we gaze we know | I |
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| Ye dwell beside our paths and homes | K |
| Our paths of sin our homes of sorrow | I |
| And guilty man where'er he roams | K |
| Your innocent mirth may borrow | I |
| The birds of air before us fleet | L |
| They cannot brook our shame to meet | L |
| But we may taste your solace sweet | L |
| And come again to morrow | I |
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| Ye fearless in your nests abide | M |
| Nor may we scorn too proudly wise | B |
| Your silent lessons undescried | M |
| By all but lowly eyes | B |
| For ye could draw th' admiring gaze | N |
| Of Him who worlds and hearts surveys | N |
| Your order wild your fragrant maze | N |
| He taught us how to prize | B |
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| Ye felt your Maker's smile that hour | O |
| As when He paused and owned you good | M |
| His blessing on earth's primal bower | O |
| Ye felt it all renewed | M |
| What care ye now if winter's storm | P |
| Sweep ruthless o'er each silken form | P |
| Christ's blessing at your heart is warm | P |
| Ye fear no vexing mood | M |
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| Alas of thousand bosoms kind | M |
| That daily court you and caress | Q |
| How few the happy secret find | M |
| Of your calm loveliness | Q |
| Live for to day to morrow's light | M |
| To morrow's cares shall bring to sight | M |
| Go sleep like closing flowers at night | M |
| And Heaven thy morn will bless | Q |
John Keble
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