On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1793 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C DEFE EGEG HEHE IJIK LELE MNMM GDGD EOEE EPEP MGMG| De sacris autem h c sit una sententia ut conserventur | A |
| Cic de Leg | B |
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| But let us all concur in this one sentiment that things sacred be inviolate | C |
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| He lives who lives to God alone | D |
| And all are dead beside | E |
| For other source than God is none | F |
| Whence life can be supplied | E |
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| To live to God is to requite | E |
| His love as best we may | G |
| To make his precepts our delight | E |
| His promises our stay | G |
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| But life within a narrow ring | H |
| Of giddy joys comprised | E |
| Is falsely named and no such thing | H |
| But rather death disguised | E |
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| Can life in them deserve the name | I |
| Who only live to prove | J |
| For what poor toys they can disclaim | I |
| An endless life above | K |
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| Who much diseased yet nothing feel | L |
| Much menaced nothing dread | E |
| Have wounds which only God can heal | L |
| Yet never ask his aid | E |
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| Who deem his house a useless place | M |
| Faith want of common sense | N |
| And ardour in the Christian race | M |
| A hypocrite's pretence | M |
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| Who trample order and the day | G |
| Which God asserts his own | D |
| Dishonour with unhallow'd play | G |
| And worship chance alone | D |
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| If scorn of God's commands impress'd | E |
| On word and deed imply | O |
| The better part of man unbless'd | E |
| With life that cannot die | E |
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| Such want it and that want uncured | E |
| Till man resigns his breath | P |
| Speaks him a criminal assured | E |
| Of everlasting death | P |
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| Sad period to a pleasant course | M |
| Yet so will God repay | G |
| Sabbaths profaned without remorse | M |
| And mercy cast away | G |
William Cowper
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