Holy Communion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FGHH IIJJ KKLL MMNO PQRR SSTT UVWW XXYY ZZA2A2 B2B2GG AAC2C2 D2D2E2E2 JJF2F2 G2G2SS H2H2I2I2| O God of Mercy God of Might | A |
| How should pale sinners bear the sight | A |
| If as Thy power in surely here | B |
| Thine open glory should appear | C |
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| For now Thy people are allowed | D |
| To scale the mount and pierce the cloud | D |
| And Faith may feed her eager view | E |
| With wonders Sinai never knew | E |
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| Fresh from th' atoning sacrifice | F |
| The world's Creator bleeding lies | G |
| That man His foe by whom He bled | H |
| May take Him for his daily bread | H |
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| O agony of wavering thought | I |
| When sinners first so near are brought | I |
| It is my Maker dare I stay | J |
| My Saviour dare I turn away | J |
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| Thus while the storm is high within | K |
| 'Twixt love of Christ and fear of sin | K |
| Who can express the soothing charm | L |
| To feel Thy kind upholding arm | L |
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| My mother Church and hear thee tell | M |
| Of a world lost yet loved so well | M |
| That He by whom the angels live | N |
| His only Son for her would give | O |
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| And doubt we yet Thou call'st again | P |
| A lower still a sweeter strain | Q |
| A voice from Mercy's inmost shrine | R |
| This very breath of Love divine | R |
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| Whispering it says to each apart | S |
| Come unto Me thou trembling heart | S |
| And we must hope so sweet the tone | T |
| The precious words are all our own | T |
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| Hear them kind Saviour hear Thy Spouse | U |
| Low at Thy feet renew her vows | V |
| Thine own dear promise she would plead | W |
| For us her true though fallen seed | W |
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| She pleads by all Thy mercies told | X |
| Thy chosen witnesses of old | X |
| Love's heralds sent to man forgiven | Y |
| One from the Cross and one from Heaven | Y |
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| This of true penitents the chief | Z |
| To the lost spirit brings relief | Z |
| Lifting on high th' adored Name | A2 |
| Sinners to save Christ Jesus came | A2 |
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| That dearest of Thy bosom Friends | B2 |
| Into the wavering heart descends | B2 |
| What fallen again yet cheerful rise | G |
| Thine Intercessor never dies | G |
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| The eye of Faith that waxes bright | A |
| Each moment by thine altar's light | A |
| Sees them e'en now they still abide | C2 |
| In mystery kneeling at our side | C2 |
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| And with them every spirit blest | D2 |
| From realms of triumph or of rest | D2 |
| From Him who saw creation's morn | E2 |
| Of all Thine angels eldest born | E2 |
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| To the poor babe who died to day | J |
| Take part in our thanksgiving lay | J |
| Watching the tearful joy and calm | F2 |
| While sinners taste Thine heavenly balm | F2 |
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| Sweet awful hour the only sound | G2 |
| One gentle footstep gliding round | G2 |
| Offering by turns on Jesus' part | S |
| The Cross to every hand and heart | S |
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| Refresh us Lord to hold it fast | H2 |
| And when Thy veil is drawn at last | H2 |
| Let us depart where shadows cease | I2 |
| With words of blessing and of peace | I2 |
John Keble
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