Hymn For The Same Occasion (the Two Hundredth Anniversary King's Chapel) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFH IJIJ KLKL MNMN| Sung By The Congregation To The Tune Of Tallis's Evening Hymn | A |
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| O'ershadowed by the walls that climb | B |
| Piled up in air by living hands | C |
| A rock amid the waves of time | B |
| Our gray old house of worship stands | C |
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| High o'er the pillared aisles we love | D |
| The symbols of the past look down | E |
| Unharmed unharming throned above | D |
| Behold the mitre and the crown | E |
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| Let not our younger faith forget | F |
| The loyal souls that held them dear | G |
| The prayers we read their tears have wet | F |
| The hymns we sing they loved to hear | H |
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| The memory of their earthly throne | I |
| Still to our holy temple clings | J |
| But here the kneeling suppliants own | I |
| One only Lord the King of kings | J |
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| Hark while our hymn of grateful praise | K |
| The solemn echoing vaults prolong | L |
| The far off voice of earlier days | K |
| Blends with our own in hallowed song | L |
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| To Him who ever lives and reigns | M |
| Whom all the hosts of heaven adore | N |
| Who lent the life His breath sustains | M |
| Be glory now and evermore | N |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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