Love's Worship Restored Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCC DEDEEFF GHGHIJJ KCKCCLL DMDMMNN OPOPPQQ BRBRRSS CTCTTUU| O Love thine empire is not dead | A |
| Nor will we let thy worship go | B |
| Although thine early flush be fled | A |
| Thine ardent eyes more faintly glow | B |
| And thy light wings be fallen slow | B |
| Since when as novices we came | C |
| Into the temple of thy name | C |
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| Not now with garlands in our hair | D |
| And singing lips we come to thee | E |
| There is a coldness in the air | D |
| A dulness on the encircling sea | E |
| Which doth not well with songs agree | E |
| And we forget the words we sang | F |
| When first to thee our voices rang | F |
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| When we recall that magic prime | G |
| We needs must weep its early death | H |
| How pleasant from thy towers the chime | G |
| Of bells and sweet the incense breath | H |
| That rose while we who kept thy faith | I |
| Chanting our creed and chanting bore | J |
| Our offerings to thine altar store | J |
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| Now are our voices out of tune | K |
| Our gifts unworthy of thy name | C |
| December frowns in place of June | K |
| Who smiled when to thy house we came | C |
| We who came leaping now are lame | C |
| Dull ears and failing eyes are ours | L |
| And who shall lead us to thy towers | L |
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| O hark A sound across the air | D |
| Which tells not of December's cold | M |
| A sound most musical and rare | D |
| Thy bells are ringing as of old | M |
| With silver throats and tongues of gold | M |
| Alas it is too sweet for truth | N |
| An empty echo of our youth | N |
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| Nay never echo spake so loud | O |
| It is indeed thy bells that ring | P |
| And lo against the leaden cloud | O |
| Thy towers Once more we leap and spring | P |
| Once more melodiously we sing | P |
| We sing and in our song forget | Q |
| That winter lies around us yet | Q |
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| Oh what is winter now we know | B |
| Full surely thou canst never fail | R |
| Forgive our weak untrustful woe | B |
| Which deemed thy glowing face grown pale | R |
| We know thee mighty to prevail | R |
| Doubt and decrepitude depart | S |
| And youth comes back into the heart | S |
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| O Love who turnest frost to flame | C |
| With ardent and immortal eyes | T |
| Whose spirit sorrow cannot tame | C |
| Nor time subdue in any wise | T |
| While sun and moon for us shall rise | T |
| Oh may we in thy service keep | U |
| Till in thy faith we fall asleep | U |
Robert Fuller Murray
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