You Break Their Fall
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
If we don’t hear your teaching,
Then why should we go?
Should we listen to preaching;
That comes from below?
When you give me a place,
I can hear from your Spirit;
Then that’s where I’ll go,
Because I want to hear it!
If I don’t hear your word,
As I drink from this flask;
Then I won’t lift it up,
I’ll just kneel down and ask!
You watch those who fear you
And take up their cause.
When they call you, you listen
And you break their fall.
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Written on September 16, 2009
Submitted by dawg4jesus on December 02, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 453 |
Words | 105 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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