St. James's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIHI JFKLMCMC NOPOQRQR FSFSTIUI VFWFXYXY| Sit down and take thy fill of joy | A |
| At God's right hand a bidden guest | B |
| Drink of the cup that cannot cloy | A |
| Eat of the bread that cannot waste | C |
| O great Apostle rightly now | D |
| Thou readest all thy Saviour meant | E |
| What time His grave yet gentle brow | D |
| In sweet reproof on thee was bent | E |
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| Seek ye to sit enthroned by me | F |
| Alas ye know not what ye ask | G |
| The first in shame and agony | F |
| The lowest in the meanest task | G |
| This can ye be and came ye drink | H |
| The cup that I in tears must steep | I |
| Nor from the 'whelming waters shrink | H |
| That o'er Me roll so dark and deep | I |
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| We can Thine are we dearest Lord | J |
| In glory and in agony | F |
| To do and suffer all Thy word | K |
| Only be Thou for ever nigh | L |
| Then be it so My cup receive | M |
| And of My woes baptismal taste | C |
| But for the crown that angels weave | M |
| For those next Me in glory placed | C |
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| I give it not by partial love | N |
| But in My Father's book are writ | O |
| What names on earth shall lowliest prove | P |
| That they in Heaven may highest sit | O |
| Take up the lesson O my heart | Q |
| Thou Lord of meekness write it there | R |
| Thine own meek self to me impart | Q |
| Thy lofty hope thy lowly prayer | R |
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| If ever on the mount with Thee | F |
| I seem to soar in vision bright | S |
| With thoughts of coming agony | F |
| Stay Thou the too presumptuous flight | S |
| Gently along the vale of tears | T |
| Lead me from Tabor's sunbright steep | I |
| Let me not grudge a few short years | U |
| With thee t'ward Heaven to walk and weep | I |
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| Too happy on my silent path | V |
| If now and then allowed with Thee | F |
| Watching some placid holy death | W |
| Thy secret work of love to see | F |
| But oh most happy should Thy call | X |
| Thy welcome call at last be given | Y |
| Come where thou long hast storeth thy all | X |
| Come see thy place prepared in Heaven | Y |
John Keble
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