Visitation And Communion Of The Sick Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFGAAHH IJKKLLAM NOKKPPQQ BBAARRSS TTUUAAVV WWXXYHZZZ| O Youth and Joy your airy tread | A |
| Too lightly springs by Sorrow's bed | A |
| Your keen eye glances are too bright | B |
| Too restless for a sick man's sight | B |
| Farewell for one short life we part | C |
| I rather woo the soothing art | C |
| Which only souls in sufferings tried | D |
| Bear to their suffering brethren's side | D |
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| Where may we learn that gentle spell | E |
| Mother of Martyrs thou canst tell | E |
| Thou who didst watch thy dying Spouse | F |
| With pierced hands and bleeding brows | G |
| Whose tears from age to age are shed | A |
| O'er sainted sons untimely dead | A |
| If e'er we charm a soul in pain | H |
| Thine is the key note of our strain | H |
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| How sweet with thee to lift the latch | I |
| Where Faith has kept her midnight watch | J |
| Smiling on woe with thee to kneel | K |
| Where fixed as if one prayer could heal | K |
| She listens till her pale eye glow | L |
| With joy wild health can never know | L |
| And each calm feature ere we read | A |
| Speaks silently thy glorious Creed | M |
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| Such have I seen and while they poured | N |
| Their hearts in every contrite word | O |
| How have I rather longed to kneel | K |
| And ask of them sweet pardon's seal | K |
| How blessed the heavenly music brought | P |
| By thee to aid my faltering thought | P |
| Peace ere we kneel and when we cease | Q |
| To pray the farewell word is Peace | Q |
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| I came again the place was bright | B |
| With something of celestial light | B |
| A simple Altar by the bed | A |
| For high Communion meetly spread | A |
| Chalice and plate and snowy vest | R |
| We ate and drank then calmly blest | R |
| All mourners one with dying breath | S |
| We sate and talked of Jesus' death | S |
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| Once more I came the silent room | T |
| Was veiled in sadly soothing gloom | T |
| And ready for her last abode | U |
| The pale form like a lily showed | U |
| By Virgin fingers duly spread | A |
| And prized for love of summer fled | A |
| The light from those soft smiling eyes | V |
| Had fleeted to its parent skies | V |
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| O soothe us haunt us night and day | W |
| Ye gentle Spirits far away | W |
| With whom we shared the cup of grace | X |
| Then parted ye to Christ's embrace | X |
| We to this lonesome world again | Y |
| Yet mindful of th' unearthly strain | H |
| Practised with you at Eden's door | Z |
| To be sung on where Angels soar | Z |
| With blended voices evermore | Z |
John Keble
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