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 WWQQWhen 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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