Glory To God Alone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD E FF DDGG HHII JJFF KKLL MMFF NNOO PPQQ| Oh loved but not enough though dearer far | A |
| Than self and its most loved enjoyments are | A |
| None duly loves thee but who nobly free | B |
| From sensual objects finds his all in thee | B |
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| Glory of God thou stranger here below | C |
| Whom man nor knows nor feels a wish to know | C |
| Our faith and reason are both shocked to find | D |
| Man in the post of honour Thee behind | D |
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| Reason exclaims 'Let every creature fall | E |
| Ashamed abased before the Lord of all ' | - |
| And faith o'erwhelmed with such a dazzling blaze | F |
| Feebly describes the beauty she surveys | F |
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| Yet man dim sighted man and rash as blind | D |
| Deaf to the dictates of his better mind | D |
| In frantic competition dares the skies | G |
| And claims precedence of the Only wise | G |
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| Oh lost in vanity till once self known | H |
| Nothing is great or good but God alone | H |
| When thou shalt stand before his awful face | I |
| Then at the last thy pride shall know his place | I |
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| Glorious Almighty First and without end | J |
| When wilt thou melt the mountains and descend | J |
| When wilt thou shoot abroad thy conquering rays | F |
| And teach these atoms thou hast made thy praise | F |
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| Thy glory is the sweetest heaven I feel | K |
| And if I seek it with too fierce a zeal | K |
| Thy love triumphant o'er a selfish will | L |
| Taught me the passion and inspires it still | L |
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| My reason all my faculties unite | M |
| To make thy glory their supreme delight | M |
| Forbid it fountain of my brightest days | F |
| That I should rob thee and usurp thy praise | F |
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| My soul rest happy in thy low estate | N |
| Nor hope nor wish to be esteemed or great | N |
| To take the impression of a will divine | O |
| Be that thy glory and those riches thine | O |
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| Confess him righteous in his just decrees | P |
| Love what he loves and let his pleasure please | P |
| Die daily from the touch of sin recede | Q |
| Then thou hast crowned him and he reigns indeed | Q |
William Cowper
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