Thou Art, O God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CD EFEFGG HIHBGG JKJKGG LDMDGGAir Unknown | A |
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The day is thine the night is also thine thou hast prepared the light and the sun | B |
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Thou hast set all the borders of the earth thou hast made summer and winter | C |
Psalm lxxiv | D |
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Thou art O God the life and light | E |
Of all this wondrous world we see | F |
Its glow by day its smile by night | E |
Are but reflections caught from Thee | F |
Where'er we turn thy glories shine | G |
And all things fair and bright are Thine | G |
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When Day with farewell beam delays | H |
Among the opening clouds of Even | I |
And we can almost think we gaze | H |
Thro' golden vistas into Heaven | B |
Those hues that make the Sun's decline | G |
So soft so radiant LORD are Thine | G |
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When Night with wings of starry gloom | J |
O'ershadows all the earth and skies | K |
Like some dark beauteous bird whose plume | J |
Is sparkling with unnumbered eyes | K |
That sacred gloom those fires divine | G |
So grand so countless LORD are Thine | G |
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When youthful Spring around us breathes | L |
Thy Spirit warms her fragrant sigh | D |
And every flower the Summer wreaths | M |
Is born beneath that kindling eye | D |
Where'er we turn thy glories shine | G |
And all things fair and bright are Thine | G |
Thomas Moore
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