Evening Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHII EEJJAAJJJJKKJJII LLJJDDHHMMNOJJII EECCDDLLAAPPJJQQII RRSSJJII

Sinking now in floods of lightA
The sun resigns the world to nightA
When a lingering glance he turnsB
The glowing west with glory burnsB
And the blushing heavens awhileC
Long retain his parting smileC
Ere gray evening's sullen eyeD
Bids those tints of beauty dieD
Ere her tears have washed awayE
The footsteps of departing dayE
Nature from her verdant bowersF
Her last long strain of rapture poursG
Shrouded in her misty vestH
She sings a drowsy world to restH
And tells to man in thrilling strainsI
That the Lord Jehovah reignsI
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Lingering twilight dies awayE
Night resumes her ancient swayE
Round her sable tresses twiningJ
Countless hosts of stars are shiningJ
Weaving round the brow of nightA
A coronet of living lightA
O'er the couch of nature bendingJ
Their beauteous glances downward sendingJ
A silent watch of glory keepingJ
Guard the earth whilst life is sleepingJ
Strains unheard by mortal earsK
Echo through the starry spheresK
Other worlds awake to singJ
Glory to the eternal KingJ
Till azure fields and liquid plainsI
Echo far Jehovah reignsI
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Creation sleeps but many a soundL
Of melody is floating roundL
Where the moon lit sea is flingingJ
Its snowy foam and upward springingJ
To meet the shore advancing nighD
Pours in many a broken sighD
A mournful dirge o'er those who restH
Forgotten in its stormy breastH
Restless ocean onward raveM
He who trod the boisterous waveM
Shall to life those forms restoreN
Thy tides have rolled for ages o'erO
Those sleepers from thy depths shall springJ
To meet in air their mighty KingJ
Whilst shrinking seas repeat their strainsI
Lord of all Jehovah reignsI
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This is night her mantle grayE
She flings across the brow of dayE
To hide from mortal ken awhileC
The splendour of his kingly smileC
But what magic beauties lieD
In her dark and shadowy eyeD
When the moon with glory crownedL
Checkers o'er the distant groundL
Bathing now in floods of lightA
Now retreating from the sightA
As the heavy vapoury cloudP
Flings athwart its sable shroudP
Onward as her course is steeringJ
Now through broken cliffs appearingJ
She shows the brightness of her formQ
And laughs exulting at the stormQ
Whilst misty hills and moon lit plainsI
Echo far Jehovah reignsI
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Night thy end is hastening fastR
Eternal day will dawn at lastR
The Sun of righteousness shall riseS
Triumphant through his native skiesS
And men redeemed from dust shall springJ
To hail the advent of their KingJ
Till heaven's wide arch repeats their strainsI
Christ our own Immanuel reignsI

Susanna Moodie



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