God Hides His People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECF GHGH IJKJ CLCM CNCO OPOQ OROR SCSC| To lay the soul that loves him low | A |
| Becomes the Only wise | B |
| To hide beneath a veil of woe | A |
| The children of the skies | B |
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| Man though a worm would yet be great | C |
| Though feeble would seem strong | D |
| Assumes an independent state | C |
| By sacrilege and wrong | D |
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| Strange the reverse which once abased | C |
| The haughty creature proves | E |
| He feels his soul a barren waste | C |
| Nor dares affirm he loves | F |
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| Scorned by the thoughtless and the vain | G |
| To God he presses near | H |
| Superior to the world's disdain | G |
| And happy in its sneer | H |
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| Oh welcome in his heart he says | I |
| Humility and shame | J |
| Farewell the wish for human praise | K |
| The music of a name | J |
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| But will not scandal mar the good | C |
| That I might else perform | L |
| And can God work it if he would | C |
| By so despised a worm | M |
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| Ah vainly anxious leave the Lord | C |
| To rule thee and dispose | N |
| Sweet is the mandate of his word | C |
| And gracious all he does | O |
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| He draws from human littleness | O |
| His grandeur and renown | P |
| And generous hearts with joy confess | O |
| The triumph all his own | Q |
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| Down then with self exalting thoughts | O |
| Thy faith and hope employ | R |
| To welcome all that he allots | O |
| And suffer shame with joy | R |
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| No longer then thou wilt encroach | S |
| On his eternal right | C |
| And he shall smile at thy approach | S |
| And make thee his delight | C |
William Cowper
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