Tenth Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CBCBBDBD EFEGHIHI BJBJKLKL BBBBMNMN OPOPHQHQ CRCRSTUD| And when He was come near He beheld the city and wept over | A |
| it St Luke xix | B |
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| Why doth my Saviour weep | C |
| At sight of Sion's bowers | B |
| Shows it not fair from yonder steep | C |
| Her gorgeous crown of towers | B |
| Mark well His holy pains | B |
| 'Tis not in pride or scorn | D |
| That Israel's King with sorrow stains | B |
| His own triumphal morn | D |
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| It is not that His soul | E |
| Is wandering sadly on | F |
| In thought how soon at death's dark goal | E |
| Their course will all be run | G |
| Who now are shouting round | H |
| Hosanna to their chief | I |
| No thought like this in Him is found | H |
| This were a Conquerer's grief | I |
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| Or doth He feel the Cross | B |
| Already in His heart | J |
| The pain the shame the scorn the loss | B |
| Feel e'en His God depart | J |
| No though He knew full well | K |
| The grief that then shall be | L |
| The grief that angels cannot tell | K |
| Our God in agony | L |
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| It is not thus He mourns | B |
| Such might be martyr's tears | B |
| When his last lingering look he turns | B |
| On human hopes and fears | B |
| But hero ne'er or saint | M |
| The secret load might know | N |
| With which His spirit waxeth faint | M |
| His is a Saviour's woe | N |
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| If thou had'st known e'en thou | O |
| At least in this thy day | P |
| The message of thy peace but now | O |
| 'Tis passed for aye away | P |
| Now foes shall trench thee round | H |
| And lay thee even with earth | Q |
| And dash thy children to the ground | H |
| Thy glory and thy mirth | Q |
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| And doth the Saviour weep | C |
| Over His people's sin | R |
| Because we will not let Him keep | C |
| The souls He died to win | R |
| Ye hearts that love the Lord | S |
| If at this sight ye burn | T |
| See that in thought in deed in word | U |
| Ye hate what made Him mourn | D |
John Keble
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