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 themA
St John xB
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Addressed to Candidates for OrdinationC
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Lord in Thy field I work all dayD
I read I teach I warn I prayD
And yet these wilful wandering sheepE
Within Thy fold I cannot keepE
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I journey yet no step is wonC
Alas the weary course I runC
Like sailors shipwrecked in their dreamsF
All powerless and benighted seemsF
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What wearied out with half a lifeG
Scared with this smooth unbloody strifeG
Think where thy coward hopes had flownH
Had Heaven held out the martyr's crownI
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How couldst thou hang upon the crossJ
To whom a weary hour is lossJ
Or how the thorns and scourging brookK
Who shrinkest from a scornful lookK
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Yet ere thy craven spirit faintsJ
Hear thine own King the King of SaintsJ
Though thou wert toiling in the graveL
'Tis He can cheer thee He can saveL
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He is th' eternal mirror brightM
Where Angels view the FATHER'S lightM
And yet in Him the simplest swainN
May read his homely lesson plainN
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Early to quit His home on earthO
And claim His high celestial birthO
Alone with His true Father foundP
Within the temple's solemn roundP
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Yet in meek duty to abideQ
For many a year at Mary's sideQ
Nor heed though restless spirits askR
What hath the Christ forgot His taskR
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Conscious of Deity withinS
To bow before an heir of sinS
With folded arms on humble breastT
By His own servant washed and blestT
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Then full of Heaven the mystic DoveU
Hovering His gracious brow aboveU
To shun the voice and eye of praiseJ
And in the wild His trophies raiseJ
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With hymns of angels in His earsJ
Back to His task of woe and tearsJ
Unmurmuring through the world to roamV
With not a wish or thought at homeV
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All but Himself to heal and saveL
Till ripened for the cross and graveL
He to His Father gently yieldW
The breath that our redemption sealedW
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Then to unearthly life ariseJ
Yet not at once to seek the skiesJ
But glide awhile from saint to saintX
Lest on our lonely way we faintX
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And through the cloud by glimpses showY
How bright in Heaven the marks will glowY
Of the true cross imprinted deepE
Both on the Shepherd and the sheepE
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When out of sight in heart and prayerZ
Thy chosen people still to bearZ
And from behind Thy glorious veilA2
Shed light that cannot change or failA2
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This is Thy pastoral course O LORDB2
Till we be saved and Thou adoredB2
Thy course and ours but who are theyD
Who follow on the narrow wayD
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And yet of Thee from year to yearC2
The Church's solemn chant we hearD2
As from Thy cradle to Thy throneH
She swells her high heart cheering toneH
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Listen ye pure white robed soulsJ
Whom in her list she now enrollsJ
And gird ye for your high emprizeJ
By these her thrilling minstrelsiesJ
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And wheresoe'er in earth's wide fieldW
Ye lift for Him the red cross shieldW
Be this your song your joy and prideQ
Our Champion went before and diedQ

John Keble



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