Twenty-second Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCD EFEF GBGB HIHI JKJK ILIL MNON PQPR HSHS IBIB GTGT UVUV| Lord how oft shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him | A |
| Matthew xviii | B |
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| What liberty so glad and gay | C |
| As where the mountain boy | D |
| Reckless of regions far away | C |
| A prisoner lives in joy | D |
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| The dreary sounds of crowded earth | E |
| The cries of camp or town | F |
| Never untuned his lonely mirth | E |
| Nor drew his visions down | F |
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| The snow clad peaks of rosy light | G |
| That meet his morning view | B |
| The thwarting cliffs that bound his sight | G |
| They bound his fancy too | B |
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| Two ways alone his roving eye | H |
| For aye may onward go | I |
| Or in the azure deep on high | H |
| Or darksome mere below | I |
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| O blest restraint more blessed range | J |
| Too soon the happy child | K |
| His nook of homely thought will change | J |
| For life's seducing wild | K |
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| Too soon his altered day dreams show | I |
| This earth a boundless space | L |
| With sun bright pleasures to and fro | I |
| Sporting in joyous race | L |
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| While of his narrowing heart each year | M |
| Heaven less and less will fill | N |
| Less keenly thorough his grosser ear | O |
| The tones of mercy thrill | N |
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| It must be so else wherefore falls | P |
| The Saviour's voice unheard | Q |
| While from His pard'ning Cross He calls | P |
| O spare as I have spared | R |
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| By our own niggard rule we try | H |
| The hope to suppliants given | S |
| We mete out love as if our eye | H |
| Saw to the end of Heaven | S |
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| Yes ransomed sinner wouldst thou know | I |
| How often to forgive | B |
| How dearly to embrace thy foe | I |
| Look where thou hop'st to live | B |
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| When thou hast told those isles of light | G |
| And fancied all beyond | T |
| Whatever owns in depth or height | G |
| Creation's wondrous bond | T |
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| Then in their solemn pageant learn | U |
| Sweet mercy's praise to see | V |
| Their Lord resigned them all to earn | U |
| The bliss of pardoning thee | V |
John Keble
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