Benedicam Domino Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACADDDC EFGFFHHHF| Thank God for life life is not sweet always | A |
| Hands may he heavy laden hearts care full | B |
| Unwelcome nights follow unwelcome days | A |
| And dreams divine end in awakenings dull | C |
| Still it is life anil life is cause for praise | A |
| This ache this restlessness this quickening sting | D |
| Prove me no torpid and inanimate thing | D |
| Prove me of Him who is of life the Spring | D |
| I am alive and that is beautiful | C |
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| Thank God for Love though Love may hurt and wound | E |
| Though set with sharpest thorns its rose may be | F |
| Roses are not of winter all attuned | G |
| Must be the earth full of soft stir and free | F |
| And warm ere dawns the rose upon its tree | F |
| Fresh currents through my frozen pulses run | H |
| My heart has tasted summer tasted sun | H |
| And I can thank Thee Lord although not one | H |
| Of all the many roses blooms for me | F |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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