The Labourer's Noon-day Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD CCEE CCCC CCFF GGHH CCII HHCC| Up 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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