Forms Of Prayer To Be Used At Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDEFEF GHGHIGJG KLKMNGNG OGOGPQPQ RSRSTGTG| When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee | A |
| Isaiah xliii | B |
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| The shower of moonlight falls as still and clear | C |
| Upon this desert main | D |
| As where sweet flowers some pastoral garden cheer | C |
| With fragrance after rain | D |
| The wild winds rustle in piping shrouds | E |
| As in the quivering trees | F |
| Like summer fields beneath the shadowy clouds | E |
| The yielding waters darken in the breeze | F |
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| Thou too art here with thy soft inland tones | G |
| Mother of our new birth | H |
| The lonely ocean learns thy orisons | G |
| And loves thy sacred mirth | H |
| When storms are high or when the fires of war | I |
| Come lightening round our course | G |
| Thou breath'st a note like music from afar | J |
| Tempering rude hearts with calm angelic force | G |
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| Far far away the homesick seaman's hoard | K |
| Thy fragrant tokens live | L |
| Like flower leaves in a previous volume stored | K |
| To solace and relieve | M |
| Some heart too weary of the restless world | N |
| Or like thy Sabbath Cross | G |
| That o'er this brightening billow streams unfurled | N |
| Whatever gale the labouring vessel toss | G |
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| Oh kindly soothing in high Victory's hour | O |
| Or when a comrade dies | G |
| In whose sweet presence Sorrow dares not lower | O |
| Nor Expectation rise | G |
| Too high for earth what mother's heart could spare | P |
| To the cold cheerless deep | Q |
| Her flower and hope but Thou art with him there | P |
| Pledge of the untired arm and eye that cannot sleep | Q |
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| The eye that watches o'er wild Ocean's dead | R |
| Each in his coral cave | S |
| Fondly as if the green turf wrapt his head | R |
| Fast by his father's grave | S |
| One moment and the seeds of life shall spring | T |
| Out of the waste abyss | G |
| And happy warriors triumph with their King | T |
| In worlds without a sea unchanging orbs of bliss | G |
John Keble
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