Twelfth Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CBDEFFGH IJIJKKBB BLBLMMNN OPOPQQRR JSTSUUVW BXBXYYZZ A2B2A2B2BBC2C2 D2E2D2F2D2D2G2G2 H2B2H2B2I2I2EE| And looking up to heaven He sighed and saith unto him Ephphatha | A |
| that is Be opened St Mark vii | B |
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| The Son of God in doing good | C |
| Was fain to look to Heaven and sigh | B |
| And shall the heirs of sinful blood | D |
| Seek joy unmixed in charity | E |
| God will not let Love's work impart | F |
| Full solace lest it steal the heart | F |
| Be thou content in tears to sow | G |
| Blessing like Jesus in thy woe | H |
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| He looked to Heaven and sadly sighed | I |
| What saw my gracious Saviour there | J |
| With fear and anguish to divide | I |
| The joy of Heaven accepted prayer | J |
| So o'er the bed where Lazarus slept | K |
| He to His Father groaned and wept | K |
| What saw He mournful in that grave | B |
| Knowing Himself so strong to save | B |
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| O'erwhelming thoughts of pain and grief | B |
| Over His sinking spirit sweep | L |
| What boots it gathering one lost leaf | B |
| Out of yon sere and withered heap | L |
| Where souls and bodies hopes and joys | M |
| All that earth owns or sin destroys | M |
| Under the spurning hoof are cast | N |
| Or tossing in th' autumnal blast | N |
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| The deaf may hear the Saviour's voice | O |
| The fettered tongue its chain may break | P |
| But the deaf heart the dumb by choice | O |
| The laggard soul that will not wake | P |
| The guilt that scorns to be forgiven | Q |
| These baffle e'en the spells of Heaven | Q |
| In thought of these His brows benign | R |
| Not e'en in healing cloudless shine | R |
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| No eye but His might ever bear | J |
| To gaze all down that drear abyss | S |
| Because none ever saw so clear | T |
| The shore beyond of endless bliss | S |
| The giddy waves so restless hurled | U |
| The vexed pulse of this feverish world | U |
| He views and counts with steady sight | V |
| Used to behold the Infinite | W |
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| But that in such communion high | B |
| He hath a fount of strength within | X |
| Sure His meek heart would break and die | B |
| O'erburthened by His brethren's sin | X |
| Weak eyes on darkness dare not gaze | Y |
| It dazzles like the noonday blaze | Y |
| But He who sees God's face may brook | Z |
| On the true face of Sin to look | Z |
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| What then shall wretched sinners do | A2 |
| When in their last their hopeless day | B2 |
| Sin as it is shall meet their view | A2 |
| God turn His face for aye away | B2 |
| Lord by Thy sad and earnest eye | B |
| When Thou didst look to Heaven and sigh | B |
| Thy voice that with a word could chase | C2 |
| The dumb deaf spirit from his place | C2 |
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| As Thou hast touched our ears and taught | D2 |
| Our tongues to speak Thy praises plain | E2 |
| Quell Thou each thankless godless thought | D2 |
| That would make fast our bonds again | F2 |
| From worldly strife from mirth unblest | D2 |
| Drowning Thy music in the breast | D2 |
| From foul reproach from thrilling fears | G2 |
| Preserve good Lord Thy servants' ears | G2 |
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| From idle words that restless throng | H2 |
| And haunt our hearts when we would pray | B2 |
| From Pride's false chime and jarring wrong | H2 |
| Seal Thou my lips and guard the way | B2 |
| For Thou hast sworn that every ear | I2 |
| Willing or loth Thy trump shall hear | I2 |
| And every tongue unchained be | E |
| To own no hope no God but Thee | E |
John Keble
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