Sunday After Ascension Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DDDEDE FFFGFG HHHFHF FFFCFC FFFIFI JJJBJB KKKLKL FFFFFF FFFMFM NNNONO FFFCFC FFFFFF PPPCPC| As every man hath received the gift even so minister the | A |
| same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace | B |
| of God St Peter iv | C |
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| The Earth that in her genial breast | D |
| Makes for the down a kindly nest | D |
| Where wafted by the warm south west | D |
| It floats at pleasure | E |
| Yields thankful of her very best | D |
| To nurse her treasure | E |
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| True to her trust tree herb or reed | F |
| She renders for each scattered seed | F |
| And to her Lord with duteous heed | F |
| Gives large increase | G |
| Thus year by year she works unfeed | F |
| And will not cease | G |
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| Woe worth these barren hearts of ours | H |
| Where Thou hast set celestial flowers | H |
| And watered with more balmy showers | H |
| Than e'er distilled | F |
| In Eden on th' ambrosial bowers | H |
| Yet nought we yield | F |
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| Largely Thou givest gracious Lord | F |
| Largely Thy gifts should be restored | F |
| Freely Thou givest and Thy word | F |
| Is Freely give | C |
| He only who forgets to hoard | F |
| Has learned to live | C |
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| Wisely Thou givest all around | F |
| Thine equal rays are resting found | F |
| Yet varying so on various ground | F |
| They pierce and strike | I |
| That not two roseate cups are crowned | F |
| With drew alike | I |
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| E'en so in silence likest Thee | J |
| Steals on soft handed Charity | J |
| Tempering her gifts that seem so free | J |
| By time and place | B |
| Till not a woe the bleak world see | J |
| But finds her grace | B |
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| Eyes to the blind and to the lame | K |
| Feet and to sinners wholesome blame | K |
| To starving bodies food and flame | K |
| By turns she brings | L |
| To humbled souls that sink for shame | K |
| Lends heaven ward wings | L |
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| Leads them the way our Saviour went | F |
| And shows Love's treasure yet unspent | F |
| As when th' unclouded heavens were rent | F |
| Opening His road | F |
| Nor yet His Holy Spirit sent | F |
| To our abode | F |
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| Ten days th' eternal doors displayed | F |
| Were wondering so th' Almighty bade | F |
| Whom Love enthroned would send in aid | F |
| Of souls that mourn | M |
| Left orphans in Earth's dreary shade | F |
| As noon as born | M |
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| Open they stand that prayers in throngs | N |
| May rise on high and holy songs | N |
| Such incense as of right belongs | N |
| To the true shrine | O |
| Where stands the Healer of all wrongs | N |
| In light divine | O |
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| The golden censer in His hand | F |
| He offers hearts from every land | F |
| Tied to His own by gentlest band | F |
| Of silent Love | C |
| About Him winged blessings stand | F |
| In act to move | C |
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| A little while and they shall fleet | F |
| From Heaven to Earth attendants meet | F |
| On the life giving Paraclete | F |
| Speeding His flight | F |
| With all that sacred is and sweet | F |
| On saints to light | F |
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| Apostles Prophets Pastors all | P |
| Shall feel the shower of Mercy fall | P |
| And startling at th' Almighty's call | P |
| Give what He gave | C |
| Till their high deeds the world appal | P |
| And sinners save | C |
John Keble
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