Truth And Divine Love Rejected By The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGHH IIJKGG| O love of pure and heavenly birth | A |
| O simple truth scarce known on earth | A |
| Whom men resist with stubborn will | B |
| And more perverse and daring still | B |
| Smother and quench with reasonings vain | C |
| While error and deception reign | C |
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| Whence comes it that your power the same | D |
| As His on high from whence you came | D |
| Ye rarely find a listening ear | E |
| Or heart that makes you welcome here | E |
| Because ye bring reproach and pain | C |
| Where'er ye visit in your train | C |
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| The world is proud and cannot bear | F |
| The scorn and calumny ye share | F |
| The praise of men the mark they mean | G |
| They fly the place where ye are seen | G |
| Pure love with scandal in the rear | H |
| Suits not the vain it costs too dear | H |
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| Then let the price be what it may | I |
| Though poor I am prepared to pay | I |
| Come shame come sorrow spite of tears | J |
| Weakness and heart oppressing fears | K |
| One soul as least shall not repine | G |
| To give you room come reign in mine | G |
William Cowper
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