Septuagesima Sunday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFE GHGH IJIK GLGL MNMN LOLO PQPQ RSRT UVUW XYXY ZQZC A2QA2Q| The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world | A |
| are clearly seen being understood by the things that are | B |
| made Romans i | C |
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| There is a book who runs may read | D |
| Which heavenly truth imparts | E |
| And all the lore its scholars need | F |
| Pure eyes and Christian hearts | E |
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| The works of God above below | G |
| Within us and around | H |
| Are pages in that book to show | G |
| How God Himself is found | H |
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| The glorious sky embracing all | I |
| Is like the Maker's love | J |
| Wherewith encompassed great and small | I |
| In peace and order move | K |
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| The Moon above the Church below | G |
| A wondrous race they run | L |
| But all their radiance all their glow | G |
| Each borrows of its Sun | L |
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| The Savour lends the light and heat | M |
| That crowns His holy hill | N |
| The saints like stars around His seat | M |
| Perform their courses still | N |
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| The saints above are stars in heaven | L |
| What are the saints on earth | O |
| Like tress they stand whom God has given | L |
| Our Eden's happy birth | O |
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| Faith is their fixed unswerving root | P |
| Hope their unfading flower | Q |
| Fair deeds of charity their fruit | P |
| The glory of their bower | Q |
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| The dew of heaven is like Thy grace | R |
| It steals in silence down | S |
| But where it lights this favoured place | R |
| By richest fruits is known | T |
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| One Name above all glorious names | U |
| With its ten thousand tongues | V |
| The everlasting sea proclaims | U |
| Echoing angelic songs | W |
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| The raging Fire the roaring Wind | X |
| Thy boundless power display | Y |
| But in the gentler breeze we find | X |
| Thy Spirit's viewless way | Y |
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| Two worlds are ours 'tis only Sin | Z |
| Forbids us to descry | Q |
| The mystic heaven and earth within | Z |
| Plain as the sea and sky | C |
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| Thou who hast given me eyes to see | A2 |
| And love this sight so fair | Q |
| Give me a heart to find out Thee | A2 |
| And read Thee everywhere | Q |
John Keble
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