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 C2QD2QIn 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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