Père Lalemant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDACCD EFEFGBGHBH IJKJLLMNMN BOBOPQRSRS TUTUGVWGXV| I LIFT the Lord on high | A |
| Under the murmuring hemlock boughs and see | B |
| The small birds of the forest lingering by | A |
| And making melody | B |
| These are mine acolytes and these my choir | C |
| And this mine altar in the cool green shade | D |
| Where the wild soft eyed does draw nigh | A |
| Wondering as in the byre | C |
| Of Bethlehem the oxen heard Thy cry | C |
| And saw Thee unafraid | D |
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| My boatmen sit apart | E |
| Wolf eyed wolf sinewed stiller than the trees | F |
| Help me O Lord for very slow of heart | E |
| And hard of faith are these | F |
| Cruel are they yet Thy children Foul are they | G |
| Yet wert Thou born to save them utterly | B |
| Then make me as I pray | G |
| Just to their hates kind to their sorrows wise | H |
| After their speech and strong before their free | B |
| Indomitable eyes | H |
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| Do the French lilies reign | I |
| O'er Mont Royal and Stadacona still | J |
| Up the St Lawrence comes the spring again | K |
| Crowning each southward hill | J |
| And blossoming pool with beauty while I roam | L |
| Far from the perilous folds that are my home | L |
| There where we built St Ignace for our needs | M |
| Shaped the rough roof tree turned the first sweet sod | N |
| St Ignace and St Louis little beads | M |
| On the rosary of God | N |
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| Pines shall Thy pillars be | B |
| Fairer than those Sidonian cedars brought | O |
| By Hiram out of Tyre and each birch tree | B |
| Shines like a holy thought | O |
| But come no worshippers shall I confess | P |
| St Francis like the birds of the wilderness | Q |
| O with Thy love my lonely head uphold | R |
| A wandering shepherd I who hath no sheep | S |
| A wandering soul who hath no scrip nor gold | R |
| Nor anywhere to sleep | S |
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| My hour of rest is done | T |
| On the smooth ripple lifts the long canoe | U |
| The hemlocks murmur sadly as the sun | T |
| Slants his dim arrows through | U |
| Whither I go I know not nor the way | G |
| Dark with strange passions vexed with heathen charms | V |
| Holding I know not what of life or death | W |
| Only be Thou beside me day by day | G |
| Thy rod my guide and comfort underneath | X |
| Thy everlasting arms | V |
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
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