For The Men At The Front Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDCCEE FBGHII J KLMMCC LKNNOP QQOPRR| Lord God of Hosts whose mighty hand | A |
| Dominion holds on sea and land | A |
| In Peace and War Thy Will we see | B |
| Shaping the larger liberty | B |
| Nations may rise and nations fall | C |
| Thy Changeless Purpose rules them all | C |
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| When Death flies swift on wave or field | D |
| Be Thou a sure defence and shield | D |
| Console and succour those who fall | C |
| And help and hearten each and all | C |
| O hear a people's prayers for those | E |
| Who fearless face their country's foes | E |
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| For those who weak and broken lie | F |
| In weariness and agony | B |
| Great Healer to their beds of pain | G |
| Come touch and make them whole again | H |
| O hear a people's prayers and bless | I |
| Thy servants in their hour of stress | I |
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| Five million copies of this hymn have been sold and the profits given to the various Funds for the Wounded It is now being sung all round the world | J |
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| For those to whom the call shall come | K |
| We pray Thy tender welcome home | L |
| The toil the bitterness all past | M |
| We trust them to Thy Love at last | M |
| O hear a people's prayers for all | C |
| Who nobly striving nobly fall | C |
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| To every stricken heart and home | L |
| O come In tenderest pity come | K |
| To anxious souls who wait in fear | N |
| Be Thou most wonderfully near | N |
| And hear a people's prayers for faith | O |
| To quicken life and conquer death | P |
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| For those who minister and heal | Q |
| And spend themselves their skill their zeal | Q |
| Renew their hearts with Christ like faith | O |
| And guard them from disease and death | P |
| And in Thine own good time Lord send | R |
| Thy Peace on earth till Time shall end | R |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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