Fifth Sunday After Easter'rogation Sunday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDFGG HIHIJJ CKCLMM NONOCC PQPQDD RCRCSS CRCRRR TPTPRR RURUVV CWCWXX YWYWPS SSSSRR| And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed | A |
| him and I prayed for Aaron also the same time | B |
| Deuteronomy ix | C |
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| Now is there solemn pause in earth and heaven | D |
| The Conqueror now | E |
| His bonds hath riven | D |
| And Angels wonder why He stays below | F |
| Yet hath not man his lesson learned | G |
| How endless love should be returned | G |
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| Deep is the silence as of summer noon | H |
| When a soft shower | I |
| Will trickle soon | H |
| A gracious rain freshening the weary bower | I |
| O sweetly then far off is heard | J |
| The clear note of some lonely bird | J |
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| So let Thy turtle dove's sad call arise | C |
| In doubt and fear | K |
| Through darkening skies | C |
| And pierce O Lord Thy justly sealed ear | L |
| Where on the house top all night long | M |
| She trills her widowed faltering song | M |
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| Teach her to know and love her hour of prayer | N |
| And evermore | O |
| As faith grows rare | N |
| Unlock her heart and offer all its store | O |
| In holier love and humbler vows | C |
| As suits a lost returning spouse | C |
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| Not as at first but with intenser cry | P |
| Upon the mount | Q |
| She now must lie | P |
| Till Thy dear love to blot the sad account | Q |
| Of her rebellious race be won | D |
| Pitying the mother in the son | D |
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| But chiefly for she knows Thee angered worst | R |
| By holiest things | C |
| Profaned and curst | R |
| Chiefly for Aaron's seed she spreads her wings | C |
| If but one leaf she may from Thee | S |
| Win of the reconciling tree | S |
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| For what shall heal when holy water banes | C |
| Or who may guide | R |
| O'er desert plains | C |
| Thy loved yet sinful people wandering wide | R |
| If Aaron's hand unshrinking mould | R |
| An idol form of earthly gold | R |
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| Therefore her tears are bitter and as deep | T |
| Her boding sigh | P |
| As while men sleep | T |
| Sad hearted mothers heave that wakeful lie | P |
| To muse upon some darling child | R |
| Roaming in youth's uncertain wild | R |
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| Therefore on fearful dreams her inward sight | R |
| Is fain to dwell | U |
| What lurid light | R |
| Shall the last darkness of the world dispel | U |
| The Mediator in His wrath | V |
| Descending down the lightning's path | V |
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| Yet yet awhile offended Saviour pause | C |
| In act to break | W |
| Thine outraged laws | C |
| O spare Thy rebels for Thine own dear sake | W |
| Withdraw Thine hand nor dash to earth | X |
| The covenant of our second birth | X |
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| 'Tis forfeit like the first we own it all | Y |
| Yet for love's sake | W |
| Let it not fall | Y |
| But at Thy touch let veiled hearts awake | W |
| That nearest to Thine altar lie | P |
| Yet least of holy things descry | S |
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| Teacher of teachers Priest of priests from Thee | S |
| The sweet strong prayer | S |
| Must rise to free | S |
| First Levi then all Israel from the snare | S |
| Thou art our Moses out of sight | R |
| Speak for us or we perish quite | R |
John Keble
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