A Child Of God Longing To See Him Beloved Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAEFGFG HIHIJKJ FJFJLMLN OPOPHQHQ JFJFRSRS ATATJJJJ| There's not an echo round me | A |
| But I am glad should learn | B |
| How pure a fire has found me | A |
| The love with which I burn | B |
| For none attends with pleasure | C |
| To what I would reveal | D |
| They slight me out of measure | C |
| And laugh at all I feel | D |
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| The rocks receive less proudly | A |
| The story of my flame | E |
| When I approach they loudly | A |
| Reverberate his name | E |
| I speak to them of sadness | F |
| And comforts at a stand | G |
| They bid me look for gladness | F |
| And better days at hand | G |
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| Far from all habitation | H |
| I heard a happy sound | I |
| Big with the consolation | H |
| That I have often found | I |
| I said 'My lot is sorrow | J |
| My grief has no alloy | K |
| The rocks replied 'Tomorrow | J |
| Tomorrow brings thee joy ' | - |
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| These sweet and sacred tidings | F |
| What bliss it is to hear | J |
| For spite of all my chidings | F |
| My weakness and my fear | J |
| No sooner I receive them | L |
| Than I forget my pain | M |
| And happy to believe them | L |
| I love as much again | N |
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| I fly to scenes romantic | O |
| Where never men resort | P |
| For in an age so frantic | O |
| Impiety is sport | P |
| For riot and confusion | H |
| They barter things above | Q |
| Condemning as delusion | H |
| The joy of perfect love | Q |
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| In this sequestered corner | J |
| None hears what I express | F |
| Delivered from the scorner | J |
| What peace do I possess | F |
| Beneath the boughs reclining | R |
| Or roving o'er the wild | S |
| I live as undesigning | R |
| And harmless as a child | S |
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| No troubles here surprise me | A |
| I innocently play | T |
| While Providence supplies me | A |
| And guards me all the day | T |
| My dear and kind defender | J |
| Preserves me safely here | J |
| From men of pomp and splendour | J |
| Who fill a child with fear | J |
William Cowper
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