Twenty-fifth Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCCCDEDE CFCFGHGH CICICJCJ CACAGKGK LILMECEC NEOEPKPK QAQACRCR MIMISTSTThe hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of | A |
righteousness Proverbs xvi | A |
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The bright haired morn is glowing | B |
O'er emerald meadows gay | C |
With many a clear gem strewing | C |
The early shepherd's way | C |
Ye gentle elves by Fancy seen | D |
Stealing away with night | E |
To slumber in your leafy screen | D |
Tread more than airy light | E |
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And see what joyous greeting | C |
The sun through heaven has shed | F |
Though fast yon shower be fleeting | C |
His beams have faster sped | F |
For lo above the western haze | G |
High towers the rainbow arch | H |
In solid span of purest rays | G |
How stately is its march | H |
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Pride of the dewy morning | C |
The swain's experienced eye | I |
From thee takes timely warning | C |
Nor trusts the gorgeous sky | I |
For well he knows such dawnings gay | C |
Bring noons of storm and shower | J |
And travellers linger on the way | C |
Beside the sheltering bower | J |
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E'en so in hope and trembling | C |
Should watchful shepherd view | A |
His little lambs assembling | C |
With glance both kind and true | A |
'Tis not the eye of keenest blaze | G |
Nor the quick swelling breast | K |
That soonest thrills at touch of praise | G |
These do not please him best | K |
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But voices low and gentle | L |
And timid glances shy | I |
That seem for aid parental | L |
To sue all wistfully | M |
Still pressing longing to be right | E |
Yet fearing to be wrong | C |
In these the Pastor dares delight | E |
A lamb like Christ like throng | C |
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These in Life's distant even | N |
Shall shine serenely bright | E |
As in th' autumnal heaven | O |
Mild rainbow tints at night | E |
When the last shower is stealing down | P |
And ere they sink to rest | K |
The sun beams weave a parting crown | P |
For some sweet woodland nest | K |
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The promise of the morrow | Q |
Is glorious on that eve | A |
Dear as the holy sorrow | Q |
When good men cease to live | A |
When brightening ere it die away | C |
Mounts up their altar flame | R |
Still tending with intenser ray | C |
To Heaven whence first it came | R |
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Say not it dies that glory | M |
'Tis caught unquenched on high | I |
Those saintlike brows so hoary | M |
Shall wear it in the sky | I |
No smile is like the smile of death | S |
When all good musings past | T |
Rise wafted with the parting breath | S |
The sweetest thought the last | T |
John Keble
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