Christ At The Bar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEGF HIJI CCCCC| Christ stands at the bar of the world to day | A |
| As He stood in the days of old | B |
| And still as then we do betray | A |
| Our Lord for greed of gold | B |
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| When our every deed and word and thought | C |
| Should our fealty proclaim | D |
| Full oft we bring His name to nought | C |
| And cover Him with shame | D |
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| Not alone did Judas his Master sell | E |
| Nor Peter his Lord deny | F |
| Each one who doth His love repel | E |
| Or at His guidance doth rebel | G |
| Doth the Lord Christ crucify | F |
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| Like the men of old we vote His death | H |
| Lest His life should interfere | I |
| With the things we have or the things we crave | J |
| Or the things we hold more dear | I |
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| Christ stands at the bar of the world to day | C |
| As He stood in the days of old | C |
| Let each man tax his soul and say | C |
| Shall I again my Lord betray | C |
| For my greed or my goods or my gold | C |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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