God's New Year's Gift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADED FGHGIJFJ K L| What shall the coming year bring forth | A |
| O Lord who rulest the land | B |
| For the navies of the sea and air | C |
| Are but stubble in Thy hand | B |
| The battalions in the field go forth | A |
| They arm in mighty line | D |
| Do they kneel to know Thy holy will | E |
| Have they asked from Thee a sign | D |
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| The kings invoke Thy holy name | F |
| In their carnage and their strife | G |
| But the purple gift it was Thine to give | H |
| Recks not of pity nor life | G |
| For they're drunk with the wine of lustful power | I |
| And seared with the sins of earth | J |
| And their prayers and preachments now mock Thy name | F |
| And make of Thy laws but mirth | J |
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| January | K |
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| For Duncan Campbell Scott | L |
Thomas O'hagan
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