The Circumcision Of Christ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK LMLM NONO MGMG PCPC QRQR PSPS TUTQ CVSV WXWY SDSD ZMZM SA2SB2 C2QD2Q| In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made | A |
| without hands Coloss ii | B |
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| The year begins with Thee | C |
| And Thou beginn'st with woe | D |
| To let the world of sinners see | C |
| That blood for sin must flow | D |
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| Thine infant cries O Lord | E |
| Thy tears upon the breast | F |
| Are not enough the legal sword | E |
| Must do its stern behest | F |
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| Like sacrificial wine | G |
| Poured on a victim's head | H |
| Are those few precious drops of Thine | G |
| Now first to offering led | H |
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| They are the pledge and seal | I |
| Of Christ's unswerving faith | J |
| Given to His Sire our souls to heal | I |
| Although it cost His death | K |
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| They to His Church of old | L |
| To each true Jewish heart | M |
| In Gospel graces manifold | L |
| Communion blest impart | M |
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| Now of Thy love we deem | N |
| As of an ocean vast | O |
| Mounting in tides against the stream | N |
| Of ages gone and past | O |
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| Both theirs and ours Thou art | M |
| As we and they are Thine | G |
| Kings Prophets Patriarchs all have part | M |
| Along the sacred line | G |
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| By blood and water too | P |
| God's mark is set on Thee | C |
| That in Thee every faithful view | P |
| Both covenants might see | C |
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| O bond of union dear | Q |
| And strong as is Thy grace | R |
| Saints parted by a thousand year | Q |
| May thus in heart embrace | R |
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| Is there a mourner true | P |
| Who fallen on faithless days | S |
| Sighs for the heart consoling view | P |
| Of those Heaven deigned to praise | S |
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| In spirit may'st thou meet | T |
| With faithful Abraham here | U |
| Whom soon in Eden thou shalt greet | T |
| A nursing Father dear | Q |
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| Would'st thou a poet be | C |
| And would thy dull heart fain | V |
| Borrow of Israel's minstrelsy | S |
| One high enraptured strain | V |
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| Come here thy soul to tune | W |
| Here set thy feeble chant | X |
| Here if at all beneath the moon | W |
| Is holy David's haunt | Y |
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| Art thou a child of tears | S |
| Cradled in care and woe | D |
| And seems it hard thy vernal years | S |
| Few vernal joys can show | D |
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| And fall the sounds of mirth | Z |
| Sad on thy lonely heart | M |
| From all the hopes and charms of earth | Z |
| Untimely called to part | M |
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| Look here and hold thy peace | S |
| The Giver of all good | A2 |
| E'en from the womb takes no release | S |
| From suffering tears and blood | B2 |
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| If thou would'st reap in love | C2 |
| First sow in holy fear | Q |
| So life a winter's morn may prove | D2 |
| To a bright endless year | Q |
John Keble
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