Communion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED FGFG HBIB JKJK LGLG MNCN OKOK PQRQ STUT VKBK WGXG YZA2Z B2VB2V| What is it to commune | A |
| It is when soul meets soul and they embrace | B |
| As souls may stooping from each separate sphere | C |
| For a brief moment's space | B |
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| What is it to commune | A |
| It is to lay the veil of custom by | D |
| To be all unafraid of truth to talk | E |
| Face to face eye to eye | D |
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| Not face to face dear Lord | F |
| That is the joy of brighter worlds to be | G |
| And yet Thy bidden guests about Thy board | F |
| We do commune with Thee | G |
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| Behind the white robed priest | H |
| Our eyes anointed with a sudden grace | B |
| Dare to conjecture of a mighty guest | I |
| A dim beloved Face | B |
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| And is it Thou indeed | J |
| And dost Thou lay Thy glory all away | K |
| To visit us and with Thy grace to feed | J |
| Our hungering hearts to day | K |
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| And can a thing so sweet | L |
| And can such heavenly condescension be | G |
| Ah wherefore tarry thus our lingering feet | L |
| It can be none but Thee | G |
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| There is the gracious ear | M |
| That never yet was deaf to sinner's call | N |
| We will not linger and we dare not fear | C |
| But kneel and tell Thee all | N |
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| We tell Thee of our sin | O |
| Only half loathed only half wished away | K |
| And those clear eyes of Love that look within | O |
| Rebuke us seem to say | K |
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| O bought with my own blood | P |
| Mine own for whom my precious life I gave | Q |
| Am I so little prized remembered loved | R |
| By those I died to save | Q |
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| And under that deep gaze | S |
| Sorrow awakes we kneel with eyelids wet | T |
| And marvel as with Peter at the gate | U |
| That we could so forget | T |
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| We tell Thee of our care | V |
| Of the sore burden pressing day by day | K |
| And in the light and pity of Thy face | B |
| The burden melts away | K |
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| We breathe our secret wish | W |
| The importunate longing which no man may see | G |
| We ask it humbly or more restful still | X |
| We leave it all to Thee | G |
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| And last our amulet | Y |
| Of precious names we thread and soft and low | Z |
| We crave for each beloved or near or far | A2 |
| A blessing ere we go | Z |
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| The thorns are turned to flowers | B2 |
| All dark perplexities seem light and fair | V |
| A mist is lifted from the heavy hours | B2 |
| And Thou art everywhere | V |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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