Rebecca's Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGFHFH GIGIJKJK LMLMNOPQ| When Israel of the Lord beloved | A |
| Out from the land of bondage came | B |
| Her father's God before her moved | C |
| An awful Guide in smoke and flame | B |
| By day along the astonished lands | D |
| The cloudy pillar glided slow | E |
| By night Arabia's crimsoned sands | D |
| Returned the fiery column's glow | E |
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| There rose the choral hymn of praise | F |
| And trump and timbrel answer'd keen | G |
| And Zion's daughters pour'd their lays | F |
| With priest's and warrior's voice between | G |
| No portents now our foes amaze | F |
| Forsaken Israel wanders lone | H |
| Our fathers would not know Thy ways | F |
| And Thou hast left them to their own | H |
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| But present still though now unseen | G |
| When brightly shines the prosperous day | I |
| Be thoughts of Thee a cloudy screen | G |
| To temper the deceitful ray | I |
| And O when gathers on our path | J |
| In shade and storm the frequent night | K |
| Be Thou long suffering slow to wrath | J |
| A burning and a shining light | K |
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| Our harps we left by Babel's streams | L |
| The tyrant's jest the Gentile's scorn | M |
| No censer round our altar beams | L |
| And mute are timbrel harp and horn | M |
| But Thou hast said The blood of goat | N |
| The flesh of rams I will not prize | O |
| A contrite heart a humble thought | P |
| Are mine accepted sacrifice | Q |
Sir Walter Scott
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