God's Foot On The Cradle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IHIHJFJF| The air is chill with the frost of doubt | A |
| And men's hearts are sadly failing | B |
| They do not hear the great Victor's shout | A |
| But indulge in bitter wailing | B |
| The old gives place to the new they say | C |
| And fond hopes are daily buried | D |
| Our cherished views are oft borne away | C |
| As if by the tempest hurried | D |
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| The world is stirred to its very heart | E |
| And the Church shares the commotion | F |
| With systems old we are loathe to part | E |
| To sail on an unknown ocean | F |
| The world now heaves like the great sea's breast | G |
| And rocks like an infant's cradle | H |
| And looking up by sore grief oppressed | G |
| We find the sky draped in sable | H |
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| I will not fear though the earth should rock | I |
| If God's foot be on the cradle | H |
| But rest in peace midst the tempest's shock | I |
| Rejoicing that God is able | H |
| To still the world with His mighty hand | J |
| If His timid child should waken | F |
| Or if it rock He will by me stand | J |
| And my heart shall not be shaken | F |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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