The Soul That Loves God Finds Him Everywhere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL MMNN OOAA DEPP HHQR| O thou by long experience tried | A |
| Near whom no grief can long abide | A |
| My love how full of sweet content | B |
| I pass my years of banishment | C |
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| All scenes alike engaging prove | D |
| To souls impressed with sacred love | E |
| Where'er they dwell they dwell in thee | F |
| In heaven in earth or on the sea | F |
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| To me remains nor place nor time | G |
| My country is in every clime | G |
| I can be calm and free from care | H |
| On any shore since God is there | H |
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| While place we seek or place we shun | I |
| The soul finds happiness in none | I |
| But with a God to guide our way | J |
| 'Tis equal joy to go or stay | J |
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| Could I be cast where thou art not | K |
| That were indeed a dreadful lot | K |
| But regions none remote I call | L |
| Secure of finding God in all | L |
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| My country Lord art thou alone | M |
| Nor other can I claim or own | M |
| The point where all my wishes meet | N |
| My law my love life's only sweet | N |
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| I hold by nothing here below | O |
| Appoint my journey and I go | O |
| Though pierced by scorn oppressed by pride | A |
| I feel thee good feel nought beside | A |
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| No frowns of men can hurtful prove | D |
| To souls on fire with heavenly love | E |
| Though men and devils both condemn | P |
| No gloomy days arise from them | P |
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| Ah then to his embrace repair | H |
| My soul thou art no stranger there | H |
| There love divine shall be thy guard | Q |
| And peace and safety thy reward | R |
William Cowper
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