Thursday Before Easter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGFHHII JKLKMMFK NOPOKKHH QRQRDDSS MTMTDDUU VKVKWWXX YDZDA2A2B2B2| As the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came | A |
| forth and I am come to shew thee for thou art greatly | B |
| beloved therefore understand the matter and consider the | C |
| vision Daniel ix | D |
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| O Holy mountain of my God | E |
| How do thy towers in ruin lie | F |
| How art thou riven and strewn abroad | G |
| Under the rude and wasteful sky | F |
| 'Twas thus upon his fasting day | H |
| The Man of Loves was fain to pray | H |
| His lattice open toward his darling west | I |
| Mourning the ruined home he still must love the best | I |
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| Oh for a love like Daniel's now | J |
| To wing to Heaven but one strong prayer | K |
| For GOD'S new Israel sunk as low | L |
| Yet flourishing to sight as fair | K |
| As Sion in her height of pride | M |
| With queens for handmaids at her side | M |
| With kings her nursing fathers throned high | F |
| And compassed with the world's too tempting blazonry | K |
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| 'Tis true nor winter stays thy growth | N |
| Nor torrid summer's sickly smile | O |
| The flashing billows of the south | P |
| Break not upon so lone an isle | O |
| But thou rich vine art grafted there | K |
| The fruit of death or life to bear | K |
| Yielding a surer witness every day | H |
| To thine Almighty Author and His steadfast sway | H |
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| Oh grief to think that grapes of gall | Q |
| Should cluster round thine healthiest shoot | R |
| God's herald prove a heartless thrall | Q |
| Who if he dared would fain be mute | R |
| E'en such is this bad world we see | D |
| Which self condemned in owning Thee | D |
| Yet dares not open farewell of Thee take | S |
| For very pride and her high boasted Reason's sake | S |
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| What do we then if far and wide | M |
| Men kneel to CHRIST the pure and meek | T |
| Yet rage with passion swell with pride | M |
| Have we not still our faith to seek | T |
| Nay but in steadfast humbleness | D |
| Kneel on to Him who loves to bless | D |
| The prayer that waits for him and trembling strive | U |
| To keep the lingering flame in thine own breast alive | U |
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| Dark frowned the future e'en on him | V |
| The loving and beloved Seer | K |
| What time he saw through shadows dim | V |
| The boundary of th' eternal year | K |
| He only of the sons of men | W |
| Named to be heir of glory then | W |
| Else had it bruised too sore his tender heart | X |
| To see GOD'S ransomed world in wrath and flame depart | X |
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| Then look no more or closer watch | Y |
| Thy course in Earth's bewildering ways | D |
| For every glimpse thine eye can catch | Z |
| Of what shall be in those dread days | D |
| So when th' Archangel's word is spoken | A2 |
| And Death's deep trance for ever broken | A2 |
| In mercy thou mayst feel the heavenly hand | B2 |
| And in thy lot unharmed before thy Savour stand | B2 |
John Keble
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