Third Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BCBC DEDF GHGH CICI CJCJ KJKJ LMLM HANA COCO PBPB| There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one | A |
| sinner that repenteth St Luke xv | B |
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| O hateful spell of Sin when friends are nigh | B |
| To make stern Memory tell her tale unsought | C |
| And raise accusing shades of hours gone by | B |
| To come between us and all kindly thought | C |
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| Chilled at her touch the self reproaching soul | D |
| Flies from the heart and home she dearest loves | E |
| To where lone mountains tower or billows roll | D |
| Or to your endless depth ye solemn groves | F |
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| In vain the averted cheek in loneliest dell | G |
| Is conscious of a gaze it cannot bear | H |
| The leaves that rustle near us seem to tell | G |
| Our heart's sad secret to the silent air | H |
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| Nor is the dream untrue for all around | C |
| The heavens are watching with their thousand eyes | I |
| We cannot pass our guardian angel's bound | C |
| Resigned or sullen he will hear our sighs | I |
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| He in the mazes of the budding wood | C |
| Is near and mourns to see our thankless glance | J |
| Dwell coldly where the fresh green earth is strewed | C |
| With the first flowers that lead the vernal dance | J |
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| In wasteful bounty showered they smile unseen | K |
| Unseen by man but what if purer sprights | J |
| By moonlight o'er their dewy bosoms lean | K |
| To adore the Father of all gentle lights | J |
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| If such there be O grief and shame to think | L |
| That sight of thee should overcloud their joy | M |
| A new born soul just waiting on the brink | L |
| Of endless life yet wrapt in earth's annoy | M |
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| O turn and be thou turned the selfish tear | H |
| In bitter thoughts of low born care begun | A |
| Let it flow on but flow refined and clear | N |
| The turbid waters brightening as they run | A |
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| Let it flow on till all thine earthly heart | C |
| In penitential drops have ebbed away | O |
| Then fearless turn where Heaven hath set thy part | C |
| Nor shudder at the Eye that saw thee stray | O |
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| O lost and found all gentle souls below | P |
| Their dearest welcome shall prepare and prove | B |
| Such joy o'er thee as raptured seraphs know | P |
| Who learn their lesson at the Throne of Love | B |
John Keble
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