Oh, Teach Me To Love Thee. (air.--haydn.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAB CCDCD EEFEF| Oh teach me to love Thee to feel what thou art | A |
| Till filled with the one sacred image my heart | A |
| Shall all other passions disown | B |
| Like some pure temple that shines apart | A |
| Reserved for Thy worship alone | B |
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| In joy and in sorrow thro' praise and thro' blame | C |
| Thus still let me living and dying the same | C |
| In Thy service bloom and decay | D |
| Like some lone altar whose votive flame | C |
| In holiness wasteth away | D |
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| Tho' born in this desert and doomed by my birth | E |
| To pain and affliction to darkness and dearth | E |
| On Thee let my spirit rely | F |
| Like some rude dial that fixt on earth | E |
| Still looks for its light from the sky | F |
Thomas Moore
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