At The Fords Of Jordan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KLMM LLDD CCNN OPQQ RRSS NNTT UUPP VVNN| A little way farther to guide thee I go | A |
| Where the footing is firm and the waters are low | A |
| Then we part O my King thou once more to thy throne | B |
| I to dwell in the house of my fathers alone | B |
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| Yet think not O David one pang of regret | C |
| Would tempt the recall of the youth I have set | C |
| In thy presence the strong armed the true hearted one | D |
| Last gift of my loyalty even my son | D |
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| Ere my hand to the husbandman's toil had been trained | E |
| Or my foot to the slow moving flocks had been chained | E |
| I too would have marched in the long line of spears | F |
| With the youthful the courtly the brave for my peers | F |
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| The days when I dreamt but of battle The lamp | G |
| Which all night I kept burning that if from the camp | G |
| One straggler should come I might hang up his sword | H |
| And hearken how prospered the cause of the Lord | H |
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| How my heart used to beat how my veins used to thrill | I |
| From freezing to fever from fever to chill | I |
| When the voice of the Philistine rang through our coasts | J |
| Defying unanswered the Lord God of Hosts | J |
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| How I prayed day and night ay with many a tear | K |
| Lord shorten the time till Thy champion appear | L |
| And if fearing or hoping myself to change blows | M |
| With the giant God bidden I know and God knows | M |
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| Ah it was not for gain and it was not for fear | L |
| That I wore not the warrior's glittering gear | L |
| My father my mother the heart strife was done | D |
| For Saul had his thousands and they had but one | D |
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| I am old but King David I cannot forget | C |
| My hot hearted youth so my boy shall not fret | C |
| 'Mid the safety and sameness of flocks and of fields | N |
| While the soldiers of Israel burnish their shields | N |
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| The Lord be thy keeper henceforth and for aye | O |
| My son whom I love And when I am away | P |
| Be thy spirit as now pure and lofty and bold | Q |
| Thy strength still unwasted thy heart never cold | Q |
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| When thy soul with the minions of darkness must fight | R |
| The Great King lend thee weapons and armour of light | R |
| No hindrance are they like the harness of Saul | S |
| To the boy from the folds May'st thou bear them through all | S |
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| All blessings be thine which the promise foretells | N |
| And oh when the heart of thy eldest born swells | N |
| At thy stories of many a soldierly deed | T |
| Tell how one not a soldier served Israel in need | T |
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| The men are fast forming again into rank | U |
| The river is forded we part on the bank | U |
| Haste where welcome awaiteth thee David this day | P |
| For the joy of the people ill beareth delay | P |
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| The Lord give thy children the love guarded crown | V |
| When the King and his servant in dust have lain down | V |
| Till the hope of the nations thy lineage shall close | N |
| God's arrows be sharp in the hearts of thy foes | N |
Mary Hannay Foott
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