Hymn Of The Waldenses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEFFGG HHIIJJ KLMMNN| Hear Father hear thy faint afflicted flock | A |
| Cry to thee from the desert and the rock | A |
| While those who seek to slay thy children hold | B |
| Blasphemous worship under roofs of gold | B |
| And the broad goodly lands with pleasant airs | C |
| That nurse the grape and wave the grain are theirs | C |
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| Yet better were this mountain wilderness | D |
| And this wild life of danger and distress | E |
| Watchings by night and perilous flight by day | F |
| And meetings in the depths of earth to pray | F |
| Better far better than to kneel with them | G |
| And pay the impious rite thy laws condemn | G |
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| Thou Lord dost hold the thunder the firm land | H |
| Tosses in billows when it feels thy hand | H |
| Thou dashest nation against nation then | I |
| Stillest the angry world to peace again | I |
| Oh touch their stony hearts who hunt thy sons | J |
| The murderers of our wives and little ones | J |
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| Yet mighty God yet shall thy frown look forth | K |
| Unveiled and terribly shall shake the earth | L |
| Then the foul power of priestly sin and all | M |
| Its long upheld idolatries shall fall | M |
| Thou shalt raise up the trampled and oppressed | N |
| And thy delivered saints shall dwell in rest | N |
William Cullen Bryant
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