Second Sunday In Lent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGFG HIHI JCJC KLKL MCMC MNMN OMOM MPMP BMBM NQNQ RSRS MIMI MCCCC TMTM| And when Esau heard the words of his father he cried with a | A |
| great and exceeding bitter cry and said unto his father | B |
| Bless me even me also O my father Genesis xxvii | C |
| Compare Hebrew xii He found no place of repentance | D |
| though he sought it carefully with tears | E |
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| And is there in God's world so drear a place | F |
| Where the loud bitter cry is raised in vain | G |
| Where tears of penance come too late for grace | F |
| As on the uprooted flower the genial rain | G |
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| 'Tis even so the sovereign Lord of souls | H |
| Stores in the dungeon of His boundless realm | I |
| Each bolt that o'er the sinner vainly rolls | H |
| With gathered wrath the reprobate to whelm | I |
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| Will the storm hear the sailor's piteous cry | J |
| Taught so mistrust too late the tempting wave | C |
| When all around he sees but sea and sky | J |
| A God in anger a self chosen grave | C |
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| Or will the thorns that strew intemperance' bed | K |
| Turn with a wish to down will late remorse | L |
| Recall the shaft the murderer's hand has sped | K |
| Or from the guiltless bosom turn its course | L |
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| Then may the unbodied soul in safety fleet | M |
| Through the dark curtains of the world above | C |
| Fresh from the stain of crime nor fear to meet | M |
| The God whom here she would not learn to love | C |
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| Then is there hope for such as die unblest | M |
| That angel wings may waft them to the shore | N |
| Nor need the unready virgin strike her breast | M |
| Nor wait desponding round the bridegroom's door | N |
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| But where is then the stay of contrite hearts | O |
| Of old they leaned on Thy eternal word | M |
| But with the sinner's fear their hope departs | O |
| Fast linked as Thy great Name to Thee O Lord | M |
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| That Name by which Thy faithful oath is past | M |
| That we should endless be for joy or woe | P |
| And if the treasures of Thy wrath could waste | M |
| Thy lovers must their promised Heaven forego | P |
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| But ask of elder days earth's vernal hour | B |
| When in familiar talk God's voice was heard | M |
| When at the Patriarch's call the fiery shower | B |
| Propitious o'er the turf built shrine appeared | M |
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| Watch by our father Isaac's pastoral door | N |
| The birthright sold the blessing lost and won | Q |
| Tell Heaven has wrath that can relent no more | N |
| The Grave dark deeds that cannot be undone | Q |
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| We barter life for pottage sell true bliss | R |
| For wealth or power for pleasure or renown | S |
| Thus Esau like our Father's blessing miss | R |
| Then wash with fruitless tears our faded crown | S |
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| Our faded crown despised and flung aside | M |
| Shall on some brother's brow immortal bloom | I |
| No partial hand the blessing may misguide | M |
| No flattering fancy change our Monarch's doom | I |
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| His righteous doom that meek true hearted | M |
| Love | C |
| The everlasting birthright should receive | C |
| The softest dews drop on her from above | C |
| The richest green her mountain garland weave | C |
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| Her brethren mightiest wisest eldest born | T |
| Bow to her sway and move at her behest | M |
| Isaac's fond blessing may not fall on scorn | T |
| Nor Balaam's curse on Love which God hath blest | M |
John Keble
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