Hymn Xxi: Ye Simple Souls That Stray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDF GHGIJKLK MNONPQPQ KRKKJSLT UVWXYZA2Z B2C2B2C2D2E2D2E2| Ye simple souls that stray | A |
| Far from the path of peace | B |
| That lonely unfrequented way | A |
| To life and happiness | C |
| Why will ye folly love | D |
| And throng the downward road | E |
| And hate the wisdom from above | D |
| And mock the sons of God | F |
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| Madness and misery | G |
| Ye count our life beneath | H |
| And nothing great or good can see | G |
| Or glorious in our death | I |
| As only born to grieve | J |
| Beneath your feet we lie | K |
| And utterly contemned we live | L |
| And unlamented die | K |
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| So wretched and obscure | M |
| The men whom ye despise | N |
| So foolish impotent and poor | O |
| Above your scorn we rise | N |
| We through the Holy Ghost | P |
| Can witness better things | Q |
| For He whose blood is all our boast | P |
| Hath made us priests and kings | Q |
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| Riches unsearchable | K |
| In Jesu's love we know | R |
| And pleasures springing from the well | K |
| Of life our souls o'erflow | K |
| The Spirit we receive | J |
| Of wisdom grace and power | S |
| And always sorrowful we live | L |
| Rejoicing evermore | T |
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| Angels our servants are | U |
| And keep in all our ways | V |
| And in their watchful hands they bear | W |
| The sacred souls of grace | X |
| Unto that heavenly bliss | Y |
| They all our steps attend | Z |
| And God himself our Father is | A2 |
| And Jesus is our friend | Z |
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| With him we walk in white | B2 |
| We in his image shine | C2 |
| Our robes are robes of glorious light | B2 |
| Our righteousness divine | C2 |
| On all the kings of earth | D2 |
| With pity we look down | E2 |
| And claim in virtue of our birth | D2 |
| A never fading crown | E2 |
Charles Wesley
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