Another New-year's Gift: Or, Song For The Circumcision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DD DEE FFGGG HHH II GGJKJ LL GGMN| Hence hence profane and none appear | A |
| With anything unhallowed here | B |
| No jot of leaven must be found | C |
| Conceal'd in this most holy ground | C |
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| What is corrupt or sour'd with sin | D |
| Leave that without then enter in | D |
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| Chor But let no Christmas mirth begin | D |
| Before ye purge and circumcise | E |
| Your hearts and hands lips ears and eyes | E |
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| Then like a perfum'd altar see | F |
| That all things sweet and clean may be | F |
| For here's a Babe that like a bride | G |
| Will blush to death if ought be spi'd | G |
| Ill scenting or unpurifi'd | G |
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| Chor The room is 'cens'd help help t' invoke | H |
| Heaven to come down the while we choke | H |
| The temple with a cloud of smoke | H |
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| Come then and gently touch the birth | I |
| Of Him who's Lord of Heaven and Earth | I |
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| And softly handle Him y'ad need | G |
| Because the pretty Babe does bleed | G |
| Poor pitied Child who from Thy stall | J |
| Bring'st in Thy blood a balm that shall | K |
| Be the best New Year's gift to all | J |
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| Let's bless the Babe and as we sing | L |
| His praise so let us bless the King | L |
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| Chor Long may He live till He hath told | G |
| His New Years trebled to His old | G |
| And when that's done to re aspire | M |
| A new born Ph oe nix from His own chaste fire | N |
Robert Herrick
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