Oh Fair! Oh Purest! Saint Augustine To His Sister. (air.--moore) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEAA FFEEGGHHAA| Oh fair oh purest be thou the dove | A |
| That flies alone to some sunny grove | B |
| And lives unseen and bathes her wing | C |
| All vestal white in the limpid spring | C |
| There if the hovering hawk be near | D |
| That limpid spring in its mirror clear | D |
| Reflects him ere he reach his prey | E |
| And warns the timorous bird away | E |
| Be thou this dove | A |
| Fairest purest be thou this dove | A |
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| The sacred pages of God's own book | F |
| Shall be the spring the eternal brook | F |
| In whose holy mirror night and day | E |
| Thou'lt study Heaven's reflected ray | E |
| And should the foes of virtue dare | G |
| With gloomy wing to seek thee there | G |
| Thou wilt see how dark their shadows lie | H |
| Between Heaven and thee and trembling fly | H |
| Be thou that dove | A |
| Fairest purest be thou that dove | A |
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