Laborare Est Orare. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCCDC EFEGFG HIHJIH FKFFKF| Although St Franceses was unwearied in her devotions yet if during her prayers she was called away by her husband or any domestic duty she would close the book cheerfully saying that a wife and a mother when called upon must quit her God at the alter to find Him in her domestic affairs | A |
| Legends of the Monastic Orders | B |
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| How infinite and sweet Thou everywhere | C |
| And all abounding Love Thy service is | D |
| Thou liest an ocean round my world of care | C |
| My petty every day and fresh and fair | C |
| Pour Thy strong tides through all my crevices | D |
| Until the silence ripples into prayer | C |
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| That Thy full glory may abound increase | E |
| And so Thy likeness shall be formed in me | F |
| I pray the answer is not rest or peace | E |
| But charges duties wants anxieties | G |
| Till there seems room for everything but Thee | F |
| And never time for anything but these | G |
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| And I should fear but lo amid the press | H |
| The whirl and hum and pressure of my day | I |
| I hear Thy garment's sweep Thy seamless dress | H |
| And close beside my work and weariness | J |
| Discern Thy gracious form not far away | I |
| But very near O Lord to help and bless | H |
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| The busy fingers fly the eyes may see | F |
| Only the glancing needle which they hold | K |
| But all my life it blossoming inwardly | F |
| And every breath is like a litany | F |
| While through each labor like a thread of gold | K |
| Is woven the sweet consciousness of Thee | F |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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