Twenty-first Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DDEFFE DDGHIG JJKLMN OOPQQP MLRSST UUVWWV XYYZZY WA2| The vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it shall | A |
| speak and not lie though it tarry wait for it because it will | B |
| surely come it will not tarry Habakkuk ii | C |
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| The morning mist is cleared away | D |
| Yet still the face of Heaven is grey | D |
| Nor yet this autumnal breeze has stirred the grove | E |
| Faded yet full a paler green | F |
| Skirts soberly the tranquil scene | F |
| The red breast warbles round this leafy cove | E |
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| Sweet messenger of calm decay | D |
| Saluting sorrow as you may | D |
| As one still bent to find or make the best | G |
| In thee and in this quiet mead | H |
| The lesson of sweet peace I read | I |
| Rather in all to be resigned than blest | G |
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| 'Tis a low chant according well | J |
| With the soft solitary knell | J |
| As homeward from some grave beloved we turn | K |
| Or by some holy death bed dear | L |
| Most welcome to the chastened ear | M |
| Of her whom Heaven is teaching how to mourn | N |
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| O cheerful tender strain the heart | O |
| That duly bears with you its part | O |
| Singing so thankful to the dreary blast | P |
| Though gone and spent its joyous prime | Q |
| And on the world's autumnal time | Q |
| 'Mid withered hues and sere its lot be cast | P |
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| That is the heart for thoughtful seer | M |
| Watching in trance nor dark nor clear | L |
| Th' appalling Future as it nearer draws | R |
| His spirit calmed the storm to meet | S |
| Feeling the rock beneath his feet | S |
| And tracing through the cloud th' eternal Cause | T |
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| That is the heart for watchman true | U |
| Waiting to see what GOD will do | U |
| As o'er the Church the gathering twilight falls | V |
| No more he strains his wistful eye | W |
| If chance the golden hours be nigh | W |
| By youthful Hope seen beaming round her walls | V |
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| Forced from his shadowy paradise | X |
| His thoughts to Heaven the steadier rise | Y |
| There seek his answer when the world reproves | Y |
| Contented in his darkling round | Z |
| If only he be faithful found | Z |
| When from the east the eternal morning moves | Y |
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| Note The expression calm delay is borrowed from a friend by | W |
| whose kind permission the following stanzas are here inserted | A2 |
John Keble
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