God Neither Known Nor Loved By The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PBQB RSRS TJUJ AVAVYe linnets let us try beneath this grove | A |
Which shall be loudest in our Maker's praise | B |
In quest of some forlorn retreat I rove | A |
For all the world is blind and wanders from his ways | B |
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That God alone should prop the sinking soul | C |
Fills them with rage against his empire now | D |
I traverse earth in vain from pole to pole | C |
To seek one simple heart set free from all below | E |
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They speak of love yet little feel its sway | F |
While in their bosom many an idol lurks | G |
Their base desires well satisfied obey | F |
Leave the Creator's hand and lean upon his works | G |
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'Tis therefore I can dwell with man no more | H |
Your fellowship ye warblers suits me best | I |
Pure love has lost its price though prized of yore | H |
Profaned by modern tongues and slighted as a jest | I |
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My God who formed you for his praise alone | J |
Beholds his purpose well fulfilled in you | K |
Come let us join the choir before his throne | J |
Partaking in his praise with spirits just and true | K |
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Yes I will always love and as I ought | L |
Tune to the praise of love my ceaseless voice | M |
Preferring love too vast for human thought | L |
In spite of erring men who cavil at my choice | M |
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Why have I not a thousand thousand hearts | N |
Lord of my soul that they might all be thine | O |
If thou approve the zeal thy smile imparts | N |
How should it ever fail can such a fire decline | O |
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Love pure and holy is a deathless fire | P |
Its object heavenly it must ever blaze | B |
Eternal love a God must needs inspire | Q |
When once he wins the heart and fits it for his praise | B |
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Self love dismissed 'tis then we live indeed | R |
In her embrace death only death is found | S |
Come then one noble effort and succeed | R |
Cast off the chain of self with which thy soul is bound | S |
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Oh I could cry that all the world might hear | T |
Ye self tormentors love your God alone | J |
Let his unequalled excellence be dear | U |
Dear to your inmost souls and make him all your own | J |
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They hear me not alas how fond to rove | A |
In endless chase of folly's specious lure | V |
'Tis here alone beneath this shady grove | A |
I taste the sweets of truth here only am secure | V |
William Cowper
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