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 madeA
without hands Coloss iiB
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The year begins with TheeC
And Thou beginn'st with woeD
To let the world of sinners seeC
That blood for sin must flowD
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Thine infant cries O LordE
Thy tears upon the breastF
Are not enough the legal swordE
Must do its stern behestF
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Like sacrificial wineG
Poured on a victim's headH
Are those few precious drops of ThineG
Now first to offering ledH
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They are the pledge and sealI
Of Christ's unswerving faithJ
Given to His Sire our souls to healI
Although it cost His deathK
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They to His Church of oldL
To each true Jewish heartM
In Gospel graces manifoldL
Communion blest impartM
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Now of Thy love we deemN
As of an ocean vastO
Mounting in tides against the streamN
Of ages gone and pastO
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Both theirs and ours Thou artM
As we and they are ThineG
Kings Prophets Patriarchs all have partM
Along the sacred lineG
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By blood and water tooP
God's mark is set on TheeC
That in Thee every faithful viewP
Both covenants might seeC
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O bond of union dearQ
And strong as is Thy graceR
Saints parted by a thousand yearQ
May thus in heart embraceR
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Is there a mourner trueP
Who fallen on faithless daysS
Sighs for the heart consoling viewP
Of those Heaven deigned to praiseS
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In spirit may'st thou meetT
With faithful Abraham hereU
Whom soon in Eden thou shalt greetT
A nursing Father dearQ
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Would'st thou a poet beC
And would thy dull heart fainV
Borrow of Israel's minstrelsyS
One high enraptured strainV
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Come here thy soul to tuneW
Here set thy feeble chantX
Here if at all beneath the moonW
Is holy David's hauntY
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Art thou a child of tearsS
Cradled in care and woeD
And seems it hard thy vernal yearsS
Few vernal joys can showD
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And fall the sounds of mirthZ
Sad on thy lonely heartM
From all the hopes and charms of earthZ
Untimely called to partM
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Look here and hold thy peaceS
The Giver of all goodA2
E'en from the womb takes no releaseS
From suffering tears and bloodB2
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If thou would'st reap in loveC2
First sow in holy fearQ
So life a winter's morn may proveD2
To a bright endless yearQ

John Keble



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