Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part Iii. - Xvi - Bishops And Priests Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEDEDF| Bishops and Priests blessed are ye if deep | A |
| As yours above all offices is high | B |
| Deep in your hearts the sense of duty lie | B |
| Charged as ye are by Christ to feed and keep | A |
| From wolves your portion of his chosen sheep | A |
| Labouring as ever in your Master's sight | C |
| Making your hardest task your best delight | C |
| What perfect glory ye in Heaven shall reap | A |
| But in the solemn Office which ye sought | D |
| And undertook premonished if unsound | E |
| Your practice prove faithless though but in thought | D |
| Bishops and Priests think what a gulf profound | E |
| Awaits yon then if they were rightly taught | D |
| Who framed the Ordinance by your lives disowned | F |
William Wordsworth
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