Oh Thou Who Dry'st The Mourner's Tear. (air.--haydn.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEDBFBFGHGH IJKJLBLBMNMN| He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds | A |
| Psalm cxlvii | B |
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| - | |
| Oh Thou who dry'st the mourner's tear | C |
| How dark this world would be | D |
| If when deceived and wounded here | E |
| We could not fly to Thee | D |
| The friends who in our sunshine live | B |
| When winter comes are flown | F |
| And he who has but tears to give | B |
| Must weep those tears alone | F |
| But Thou wilt heal that broken heart | G |
| Which like the plants that throw | H |
| Their fragrance from the wounded part | G |
| Breathes sweetness out of woe | H |
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| When joy no longer soothes or cheers | I |
| And even the hope that threw | J |
| A moment's sparkle o'er our tears | K |
| Is dimmed and vanished too | J |
| Oh who would bear life's stormy doom | L |
| Did not thy Wing of Love | B |
| Come brightly wafting thro' the gloom | L |
| Our Peace branch from above | B |
| Then sorrow touched by Thee grows bright | M |
| With more than rapture's ray | N |
| As darkness shows us worlds of light | M |
| We never saw by day | N |
Thomas Moore
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