Sixteenth Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKLK MNMN OPOP QRQR STSU OGOF VWVW LOLO| I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you which | A |
| is your glory Ephesians iii | B |
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| Wish not dear friends my pain away | C |
| Wish me a wise and thankful heart | D |
| With GOD in all my griefs to stay | C |
| Nor from His loved correction start | D |
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| The dearest offering He can crave | E |
| His portion in our souls to prove | F |
| What is it to the gift He gave | E |
| The only Son of His dear love | G |
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| But we like vexed unquiet sprights | H |
| Will still be hovering o'er the tomb | I |
| Where buried lie our vain delights | H |
| Nor sweetly take a sinner's doom | I |
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| In Life's long sickness evermore | J |
| Our thoughts are tossing to and fro | K |
| We change our posture o'er and o'er | L |
| But cannot rest nor cheat our woe | K |
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| Were it not better to lie still | M |
| Let Him strike home and bless the rod | N |
| Never so safe as when our will | M |
| Yields undiscerned by all but God | N |
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| Thy precious things whate'er they be | O |
| That haunt and vex thee heart and brain | P |
| Look to the Cross and thou shalt see | O |
| How thou mayst turn them all to gain | P |
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| Lovest thou praise the Cross is shame | Q |
| Or ease the Cross is bitter grief | R |
| More pangs than tongue or heart can frame | Q |
| Were suffered there without relief | R |
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| We of that Altar would partake | S |
| But cannot quit the cost no throne | T |
| Is ours to leave for Thy dear sake | S |
| We cannot do as Thou hast done | U |
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| We cannot part with Heaven for Thee | O |
| Yet guide us in Thy track of love | G |
| Let us gaze on where light should be | O |
| Though not a beam the clouds remove | F |
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| So wanderers ever fond and true | V |
| Look homeward through the evening sky | W |
| Without a streak of heaven's soft blue | V |
| To aid Affection's dreaming eye | W |
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| The wanderer seeks his native bower | L |
| And we will look and long for Thee | O |
| And thank Thee for each trying hour | L |
| Wishing not struggling to be free | O |
John Keble
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