Fifth Sunday After Easter - Rogation Sunday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HIHJKK LMLMNO PQPQAA RSRSTT URURRR VPVPRR RWRWXX YZYZA2A2 B2ZB2ZPT TTTTRR| Now is there solemn pause in earth and heaven | A |
| The Conqueror now | B |
| His bonds hath riven | A |
| And Angels wonder why He stays below | C |
| Yet hath not man his lesson learned | D |
| How endless love should be returned | D |
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| Deep is the silence as of summer noon | E |
| When a soft shower | F |
| Will trickle soon | E |
| A gracious rain freshening the weary bower | F |
| O sweetly then far off is heard | G |
| The clear note of some lonely bird | G |
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| So let Thy turtle dove's sad call arise | H |
| In doubt and fear | I |
| Through darkening skies | H |
| And pierce O Lord Thy justly sealed ear | J |
| Where on the house top all night long | K |
| She trills her widowed faltering song | K |
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| Teach her to know and love her hour of prayer | L |
| And evermore | M |
| As faith grows rare | L |
| Unlock her heart and offer all its store | M |
| In holier love and humbler vows | N |
| As suits a lost returning spouse | O |
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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 | A |
| Pitying the mother in the son | A |
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| But chiefly for she knows Thee angered worst | R |
| By holiest things | S |
| Profaned and curst | R |
| Chiefly for Aaron's seed she spreads her wings | S |
| If but one leaf she may from Thee | T |
| Win of the reconciling tree | T |
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| For what shall heal when holy water banes | U |
| Or who may guide | R |
| O'er desert plains | U |
| 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 | V |
| Her boding sigh | P |
| As while men sleep | V |
| 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 | W |
| What lurid light | R |
| Shall the last darkness of the world dispel | W |
| The Mediator in His wrath | X |
| Descending down the lightning's path | X |
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| Yet yet awhile offended Saviour pause | Y |
| In act to break | Z |
| Thine outraged laws | Y |
| O spare Thy rebels for Thine own dear sake | Z |
| Withdraw Thine hand nor dash to earth | A2 |
| The covenant of our second birth | A2 |
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| 'Tis forfeit like the first we own it all | B2 |
| Yet for love's sake | Z |
| Let it not fall | B2 |
| But at Thy touch let veiled hearts awake | Z |
| That nearest to Thine altar lie | P |
| Yet least of holy things descry | T |
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| Teacher of teachers Priest of priests from Thee | T |
| The sweet strong prayer | T |
| Must rise to free | T |
| First Levi then all Israel from the snare | T |
| Thou art our Moses out of sight | R |
| Speak for us or we perish quite | R |
John Keble
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