Tuesday In Whitsun-week Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C DDEE CCFF GGHI JJKK JJLL MMNN OOPP QQRR SSTT UUJJ JJVV LLWW JJXX YYEE ZZA2A2 B2B2DD C2D2HH JJJJ WWQQ| When He putteth forth His own sheep He goeth before them | A |
| St John x | B |
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| Addressed to Candidates for Ordination | C |
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| Lord in Thy field I work all day | D |
| I read I teach I warn I pray | D |
| And yet these wilful wandering sheep | E |
| Within Thy fold I cannot keep | E |
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| I journey yet no step is won | C |
| Alas the weary course I run | C |
| Like sailors shipwrecked in their dreams | F |
| All powerless and benighted seems | F |
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| What wearied out with half a life | G |
| Scared with this smooth unbloody strife | G |
| Think where thy coward hopes had flown | H |
| Had Heaven held out the martyr's crown | I |
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| How couldst thou hang upon the cross | J |
| To whom a weary hour is loss | J |
| Or how the thorns and scourging brook | K |
| Who shrinkest from a scornful look | K |
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| Yet ere thy craven spirit faints | J |
| Hear thine own King the King of Saints | J |
| Though thou wert toiling in the grave | L |
| 'Tis He can cheer thee He can save | L |
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| He is th' eternal mirror bright | M |
| Where Angels view the FATHER'S light | M |
| And yet in Him the simplest swain | N |
| May read his homely lesson plain | N |
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| Early to quit His home on earth | O |
| And claim His high celestial birth | O |
| Alone with His true Father found | P |
| Within the temple's solemn round | P |
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| Yet in meek duty to abide | Q |
| For many a year at Mary's side | Q |
| Nor heed though restless spirits ask | R |
| What hath the Christ forgot His task | R |
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| Conscious of Deity within | S |
| To bow before an heir of sin | S |
| With folded arms on humble breast | T |
| By His own servant washed and blest | T |
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| Then full of Heaven the mystic Dove | U |
| Hovering His gracious brow above | U |
| To shun the voice and eye of praise | J |
| And in the wild His trophies raise | J |
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| With hymns of angels in His ears | J |
| Back to His task of woe and tears | J |
| Unmurmuring through the world to roam | V |
| With not a wish or thought at home | V |
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| All but Himself to heal and save | L |
| Till ripened for the cross and grave | L |
| He to His Father gently yield | W |
| The breath that our redemption sealed | W |
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| Then to unearthly life arise | J |
| Yet not at once to seek the skies | J |
| But glide awhile from saint to saint | X |
| Lest on our lonely way we faint | X |
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| And through the cloud by glimpses show | Y |
| How bright in Heaven the marks will glow | Y |
| Of the true cross imprinted deep | E |
| Both on the Shepherd and the sheep | E |
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| When out of sight in heart and prayer | Z |
| Thy chosen people still to bear | Z |
| And from behind Thy glorious veil | A2 |
| Shed light that cannot change or fail | A2 |
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| This is Thy pastoral course O LORD | B2 |
| Till we be saved and Thou adored | B2 |
| Thy course and ours but who are they | D |
| Who follow on the narrow way | D |
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| And yet of Thee from year to year | C2 |
| The Church's solemn chant we hear | D2 |
| As from Thy cradle to Thy throne | H |
| She swells her high heart cheering tone | H |
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| Listen ye pure white robed souls | J |
| Whom in her list she now enrolls | J |
| And gird ye for your high emprize | J |
| By these her thrilling minstrelsies | J |
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| And wheresoe'er in earth's wide field | W |
| Ye lift for Him the red cross shield | W |
| Be this your song your joy and pride | Q |
| Our Champion went before and died | Q |
John Keble
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