Watching Unto God In The Night Season (2) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFDGDH IJIJKKKK ILIMNDND JJJJEJOJ EDEDKJK APAPKDKD DDDDEDED| Season of my purest pleasure | A |
| Sealer of observing eyes | B |
| When in larger freer measure | A |
| I can commune with the skies | B |
| While beneath thy shade extended | C |
| Weary man forgets his woes | D |
| I my daily trouble ended | C |
| Find in watching my repose | D |
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| Silence all around prevailing | E |
| Nature hushed in slumber sweet | F |
| No rude noise mine ears assailing | E |
| Now my God and I can meet | F |
| Universal nature slumbers | D |
| And my soul partakes the calm | G |
| Breathes her ardour out in numbers | D |
| Plaintive song or lofty psalm | H |
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| Now my passion pure and holy | I |
| Shines and burns without restraint | J |
| Which the day's fatigue and folly | I |
| Cause to languish dim and faint | J |
| Charming hours of relaxation | K |
| How I dread the ascending sun | K |
| Surely idle conversation | K |
| Is an evil matched by none | K |
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| Worldly prate and babble hurt me | I |
| Unintelligible prove | L |
| Neither teach me nor divert me | I |
| I have ears for none but love | M |
| Me they rude esteem and foolish | N |
| Hearing my absurd replies | D |
| I have neither art's fine polish | N |
| Nor the knowledge of the wise | D |
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| Simple souls and unpolluted | J |
| By conversing with the great | J |
| Have a mind and taste ill suited | J |
| To their dignity and state | J |
| All their talking reading writing | E |
| Are but talents misapplied | J |
| Infants' prattle I delight in | O |
| Nothing human choose beside | J |
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| 'Tis the secret fear of sinning | E |
| Checks my tongue or I should say | D |
| When I see the night beginning | E |
| I am glad of parting day | D |
| Love this gentle admonition | K |
| Whispers soft within my breast | J |
| 'Choice befits not thy condition | K |
| Acquiescence suits thee best ' | - |
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| Henceforth the repose and pleasure | A |
| Night affords me I resign | P |
| And thy will shall be the measure | A |
| Wisdom infinite of mine | P |
| Wishing is but inclination | K |
| Quarrelling with thy decrees | D |
| Wayward nature finds the occasion | K |
| 'Tis her folly and disease | D |
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| Night with its sublime enjoyments | D |
| Now no longer will I choose | D |
| Nor the day with its employments | D |
| Irksome as they seem refuse | D |
| Lessons of a God's inspiring | E |
| Neither time nor place impedes | D |
| From our wishing and desiring | E |
| Our unhappiness proceeds | D |
William Cowper
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