Hymn For The Fair At Chicago Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK LMLM FNFN| O GOD in danger's darkest hour | A |
| In battle's deadliest field | B |
| Thy name has been our Nation's tower | A |
| Thy truth her help and shield | B |
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| Our lips should fill the air with praise | C |
| Nor pay the debt we owe | D |
| So high above the songs we raise | C |
| The floods of mercy flow | D |
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| Yet Thou wilt hear the prayer we speak | E |
| The song of praise we sing | F |
| Thy children who thine altar seek | E |
| Their grateful gifts to bring | F |
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| Thine altar is the sufferer's bed | G |
| The home of woe and pain | H |
| The soldier's turfy pillow red | G |
| With battle's crimson rain | H |
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| No smoke of burning stains the air | I |
| No incense clouds arise | J |
| Thy peaceful servants Lord prepare | I |
| A bloodless sacrifice | K |
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| Lo for our wounded brothers' need | L |
| We bear the wine and oil | M |
| For us they faint for us they bleed | L |
| For them our gracious toil | M |
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| O Father bless the gifts we bring | F |
| Cause Thou thy face to shine | N |
| Till every nation owns her King | F |
| And all the earth is thine | N |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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