The Labourer's Noon-day Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD CCEE CCCC CCFF GGHH CCII HHCCUp to the throne of God is borne | A |
The voice of praise at early morn | A |
And he accepts the punctual hymn | B |
Sung as the light of day grows dim | B |
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Nor will he turn his ear aside | C |
From holy offerings at noontide | C |
Then here reposing let us raise | D |
A song of gratitude and praise | D |
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What though our burthen be not light | C |
We need not toil from morn to night | C |
The respite of the mid day hour | E |
Is in the thankful Creature's power | E |
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Blest are the moments doubly blest | C |
That drawn from this one hour of rest | C |
Are with a ready heart bestowed | C |
Upon the service of our God | C |
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Each field is then a hallowed spot | C |
An altar is in each man's cot | C |
A church in every grove that spreads | F |
Its living roof above our heads | F |
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Look up to Heaven the industrious Sun | G |
Already half his race hath run | G |
'He' cannot halt nor go astray | H |
But our immortal Spirits may | H |
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Lord since his rising in the East | C |
If we have faltered or transgressed | C |
Guide from thy love's abundant source | I |
What yet remains of this day's course | I |
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Help with thy grace through life's short day | H |
Our upward and our downward way | H |
And glorify for us the west | C |
When we shall sink to final rest | C |
William Wordsworth
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