Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDE FGFG HIJI KLKL MNMN GOGO OPOP OQOQ RSTS OOOO UBUB OOOO VPVP WXWX OOOO OAOA XYXZ AA2B2F RC2RC2 OOOO AOAO UWUW

And He turned Him onto His disciples and said privatelyA
Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see forB
I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to seeA
those things which ye see and have not seen them and toC
hear those things which ye hear and have not heard themD
St Luke xE
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On Sinai's top in prayer and tranceF
Full forty nights and forty daysG
The Prophet watched for one dear glanceF
Of thee and of Thy waysG
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Fasting he watched and all aloneH
Wrapt in a still dark solid cloudI
The curtain of the Holy OneJ
Drawn round him like a shroudI
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So separate from the world his breastK
Might duly take and strongly keepL
The print of Heaven to be expressedK
Ere long on Sion's steepL
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There one by one his spirit sawM
Of things divine the shadows brightN
The pageant of God's perfect lawM
Yet felt not full delightN
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Through gold and gems a dazzling mazeG
From veil to veil the vision ledO
And ended where unearthly raysG
From o'er the ark were shedO
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Yet not that gorgeous place nor aughtO
Of human or angelic frameP
Could half appease his craving thoughtO
The void was still the sameP
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Show me Thy glory gracious LordO
'Tis Thee he cries not Thine I seekQ
Na start not at so bold a wordO
From man frail worm and weakQ
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The spark of his first deathless fireR
Yet buoys him up and high aboveS
The holiest creature dares aspireT
To the Creator's loveS
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The eye in smiles may wander roundO
Caught by earth's shadows as they fleetO
But for the soul no help is foundO
Save Him who made it meetO
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Spite of yourselves ye witness thisU
Who blindly self or sense adoreB
Else wherefore leaving your own blissU
Still restless ask ye moreB
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This witness bore the saints of oldO
When highest rapt and favoured mostO
Still seeking precious things untoldO
Not in fruition lostO
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Canaan was theirs and in it allV
The proudest hope of kings dare claimP
Sion was theirs and at their callV
Fire from Jehovah cameP
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Yet monarchs walked as pilgrims stillW
In their own land earth's pride and graceX
And seers would mourn on Sion's hillW
Their Lord's averted faceX
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Vainly they tried the deeps to soundO
E'en of their own prophetic thoughtO
When of Christ crucified and crownedO
His Spirit in them taughtO
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But He their aching gaze repressedO
Which sought behind the veil to seeA
For not without us fully blestO
Or perfect might they beA
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The rays of the Almighty's faceX
No sinner's eye might then receiveY
Only the meekest man found graceX
To see His skirts and liveZ
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But we as in a glass espyA
The glory of His countenanceA2
Not in a whirlwind hurrying byB2
The too presumptuous glanceF
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But with mild radiance every hourR
From our dear Saviour's face benignC2
Bent on us with transforming powerR
Till we too faintly shineC2
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Sprinkled with His atoning bloodO
Safely before our God we standO
As on the rock the Prophet stoodO
Beneath His shadowing handO
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Blessed eyes which see the things we seeA
And yet this tree of life hath provedO
To many a soul a poison treeA
Beheld and not belovedO
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So like an angel's is our blissU
Oh thought to comfort and appalW
It needs must bring if used amissU
An angel's hopeless fallW

John Keble



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