Twenty-fifth Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AA BCCCDEDE CFCFGHGH CICICJCJ CACAGKGK LILMECEC NEOEPKPK QAQACRCR MIMISTST

The hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the way ofA
righteousness Proverbs xviA
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The bright haired morn is glowingB
O'er emerald meadows gayC
With many a clear gem strewingC
The early shepherd's wayC
Ye gentle elves by Fancy seenD
Stealing away with nightE
To slumber in your leafy screenD
Tread more than airy lightE
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And see what joyous greetingC
The sun through heaven has shedF
Though fast yon shower be fleetingC
His beams have faster spedF
For lo above the western hazeG
High towers the rainbow archH
In solid span of purest raysG
How stately is its marchH
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Pride of the dewy morningC
The swain's experienced eyeI
From thee takes timely warningC
Nor trusts the gorgeous skyI
For well he knows such dawnings gayC
Bring noons of storm and showerJ
And travellers linger on the wayC
Beside the sheltering bowerJ
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E'en so in hope and tremblingC
Should watchful shepherd viewA
His little lambs assemblingC
With glance both kind and trueA
'Tis not the eye of keenest blazeG
Nor the quick swelling breastK
That soonest thrills at touch of praiseG
These do not please him bestK
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But voices low and gentleL
And timid glances shyI
That seem for aid parentalL
To sue all wistfullyM
Still pressing longing to be rightE
Yet fearing to be wrongC
In these the Pastor dares delightE
A lamb like Christ like throngC
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These in Life's distant evenN
Shall shine serenely brightE
As in th' autumnal heavenO
Mild rainbow tints at nightE
When the last shower is stealing downP
And ere they sink to restK
The sun beams weave a parting crownP
For some sweet woodland nestK
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The promise of the morrowQ
Is glorious on that eveA
Dear as the holy sorrowQ
When good men cease to liveA
When brightening ere it die awayC
Mounts up their altar flameR
Still tending with intenser rayC
To Heaven whence first it cameR
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Say not it dies that gloryM
'Tis caught unquenched on highI
Those saintlike brows so hoaryM
Shall wear it in the skyI
No smile is like the smile of deathS
When all good musings pastT
Rise wafted with the parting breathS
The sweetest thought the lastT

John Keble



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