The New-year's Gift: Or, Circumcision's Song. Sung To The King In The Presence At Whitehall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCC DDDD EEFFF FEEE GHEE IIDDEEJ| Prepare for songs He's come He's come | A |
| And be it sin here to be dumb | A |
| And not with lutes to fill the room | B |
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| Cast holy water all about | C |
| And have a care no fire goes out | C |
| But 'cense the porch and place throughout | C |
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| The altars all on fire be | D |
| The storax fries and ye may see | D |
| How heart and hand do all agree | D |
| To make things sweet Chor Yet all less sweet than He | D |
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| Bring Him along most pious priest | E |
| And tell us then whenas thou seest | E |
| His gently gliding dove like eyes | F |
| And hear'st His whimpering and His cries | F |
| How can'st thou this Babe circumcise | F |
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| Ye must not be more pitiful than wise | F |
| For now unless ye see Him bleed | E |
| Which makes the bapti'm 'tis decreed | E |
| The birth is fruitless Chor Then the work God speed | E |
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| Touch gently gently touch and here | G |
| Spring tulips up through all the year | H |
| And from His sacred blood here shed | E |
| May roses grow to crown His own dear head | E |
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| Chor Back back again each thing is done | I |
| With zeal alike as 'twas begun | I |
| Now singing homeward let us carry | D |
| The Babe unto His mother Mary | D |
| And when we have the Child commended | E |
| To her warm bosom then our rites are ended | E |
| Composed by M Henry Lawes | J |
Robert Herrick
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