St. Barnabas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEE FGFGHHAA FIFIJJKK LMNMOOPP HQHQRRSS TUTUAABB VWDWXYZZ A2UA2UAAA2A2| The sea of consolation a Levite Acts iv | A |
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| The world's a room of sickness where each heart | B |
| Knows its own anguish and unrest | C |
| The truest wisdom there and noblest art | B |
| Is his who skills of comfort best | C |
| Whom by the softest step and gentlest tone | D |
| Enfeebled spirits own | D |
| And love to raise the languid eye | E |
| When like an angel's wing they feel him fleeting by | E |
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| FEEL only for in silence gently gliding | F |
| Fain would he shun both ear and sight | G |
| 'Twixt Prayer and watchful Love his heart dividing | F |
| A nursing father day and night | G |
| Such were the tender arms where cradled lay | H |
| In her sweet natal day | H |
| The Church of JESUS such the love | A |
| He to His chosen taught for His dear widowed Dove | A |
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| Warmed underneath the Comforter's safe wing | F |
| They spread th' endearing warmth around | I |
| Mourners speed here your broken hearts to bring | F |
| Here healing dews and balms abound | I |
| Here are soft hands that cannot bless in vain | J |
| By trial taught your pain | J |
| Here loving hearts that daily know | K |
| The heavenly consolations they on you bestow | K |
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| Sweet thoughts are theirs that breathe serenest calms | L |
| Of holy offerings timely paid | M |
| Of fire from heaven to bless their votive alms | N |
| And passions on GOD'S altar laid | M |
| The world to them is closed and now they shine | O |
| With rays of love divine | O |
| Through darkest nooks of this dull earth | P |
| Pouring in showery times their glow of quiet mirth | P |
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| New hearts before their Saviour's feet to lay | H |
| This is their first their dearest joy | Q |
| Their next from heart to heart to clear the way | H |
| For mutual love without alloy | Q |
| Never so blest as when in JESUS' roll | R |
| They write some hero soul | R |
| More pleased upon his brightening road | S |
| To wait than if their own with all his radiance glowed | S |
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| O happy spirits marked by God and man | T |
| Their messages of love to bear | U |
| What though long since in Heaven your brows began | T |
| The genial amarant wreath to wear | U |
| And in th' eternal leisure of calm love | A |
| Ye banquet there above | A |
| Yet in your sympathetic heart | B |
| We and our earthly griefs may ask and hope a part | B |
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| Comfort's true sons amid the thoughts of down | V |
| That strew your pillow of repose | W |
| Sure 'tis one joy to muse how ye unknown | D |
| By sweet remembrance soothe our woes | W |
| And how the spark ye lit of heavenly cheer | X |
| Lives in our embers here | Y |
| Where'er the cross is borne with smiles | Z |
| Or lightened secretly by Love's endearing wiles | Z |
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| Where'er one Levite in the temple keeps | A2 |
| The watch fire of his midnight prayer | U |
| Or issuing thence the eyes of mourners steeps | A2 |
| In heavenly balm fresh gathered there | U |
| Thus saints that seem to die in earth's rude strife | A |
| Only win double life | A |
| They have but left our weary ways | A2 |
| To live in memory here in Heaven by love and praise | A2 |
John Keble
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