A Suplication For The Joys Of Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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To the Superior World to Solemn PeaceA
To Regions where Delights shall never ceaseA
To Living Springs and to Celestial shadeB
For change of pleasure not Protection madeB
To Blissfull Harmonys o'erflowing sourceC
Which Strings or stops can neither bind or ForceC
But wafting Air for ever bears alongD
Perpetual Motion with perpetual SongD
On which the Blest in Symphonies ascendE
And towards the Throne with Vocal ardours bendE
To Radial light o'erspreading Boundless spaceF
To the safe Goal of our well ended raceF
To shelter where the weary shall have restG
And where the wicked never shall molestG
To that Jerusalem which ours belowH
Did but in type and faint resemblance shewI
To the first born and ransom'd Church aboveJ
To Seraphims whose whole composures loveJ
To active Cherubins whom wings surroundK
Not made to rest tho' on imortal groundK
But still suspended wait with flaming joyL
In swift commands their vigour to employL
Ambrosial dews distilling from their plumesM
Scattering where e'er they pass innate perfumesM
To Angells of innumerable sortsN
Subordinate in the etherial CourtsN
To Men refin'd from every gross allayO
Who taught the Flesh the Spirit to obeyO
And keeping late futurity in viewI
Do now possess what long they did persueN
To Jesus founder of the Christian raceN
And kind dispenser of the Gospell graceN
Bring me my God in my accomplish't timeP
From weakness freed and from degrading crimeP
Fast by the Tree of life be my retreatQ
Whose leaves are Med'cin and whose fruit is meatQ
Heal'd by the first and by the last renew'dR
With all perfections be my Soul enduedR
My form that has the earthly figure borneS
Take the Celestial in its Glorious turnT
My temper frail and subject to dismayO
Be stedfast there spiritualiz'd and gayO
My low Poetick tendency be rais'dU
Till the bestower worthily is prais'dU
Till Dryden's numbers for Cecilia's feastV
Which sooth depress inflame and shake the breastG
Vary the passions with each varying lineW
Allow'd below all others to outshineW
Shall yeild to those above shall yeild to mineW
In sound in sense in emphasis DivineW
Stupendious are the heights to which they riseN
Whose anthems match the musick of the skiesN
Whilst that which art we call when studied hereX
Is nature there in its sublimest sphereY
And the pathetick now so hard to findZ
Flows from the gratefull transports of the mindZ
With Poets who supernal voices raiseN
And here begin their never ending layesN
With those who to the brethren of their LordA2
In all distress a warm relief affordA2
With the Heroick Spirits of the braveB2
Who durst be true when threatn'd with the GraveB2
And when from evil in triumphant swayO
Who e'er departed made himself a preyO
To sanguine perils to penurious careC2
To scanty cloathing and precarious fareC2
To lingring solitude exhausting thoughtsN
Unsuccour'd losses and imputed faultsN
With these let me be join'd when Heaven revealsN
The judgment which admits of no appealsN
And having heard from the deciding throneD2
Well have ye suffer'd wisely have ye DoneE2
Henceforth the Kingdom of the blest is yoursN
For you unfolds its everlasting doorsN
With joyfull Allelujahs let me hailF2
The strength that o'er my weakness cou'd prevailF2
Upheld me here and raised my feeble clayO
To this felicity for which I prayO
Thro' him whose intercession I imploreG2
And Heaven once enter'd prayer shall be no moreG2
Loud acclamations shall its place supplyH2
And praise the breath of Angells in the skyH2

Anne Kingsmill Finch



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