Hymn Xxv: Stupendous Love Of God Most High! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGHI BBJKKL MMBBBB NOAEEA JPMQRM| Stupendous love of God most high | A |
| He comes to meet us from the sky | A |
| In mildest majesty | B |
| Full of unutterable grace | C |
| He calls the weary burdened race | C |
| 'Come all for help to me ' | D |
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| Tired with the greatness of my way | E |
| From him I would no longer stray | E |
| But rest in Jesus have | F |
| Weary of sin from sin would cease | G |
| Weary of mine own righteousness | H |
| And stoop myself to save | I |
| - | |
| Weary of passions unsubdued | B |
| Weary of vows in vain renewed | B |
| Of forms without the power | J |
| Of prayers and hopes complaints and groans | K |
| My fainting soul in silence owns | K |
| I can hold out no more | L |
| - | |
| Beneath this mountain load of grief | M |
| Of guilt and desperate unbelief | M |
| Jesus thy creature see | B |
| With all my nature's weight oppressed | B |
| I sink I die for want of rest | B |
| Yet cannot come to thee | B |
| - | |
| Mine utter helplessness I feel | N |
| But thou who gav'st the feeble will | O |
| The effectual grace supply | A |
| Be thou my strength my light my way | E |
| And bid my soul the call obey | E |
| And to thy bosom fly | A |
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| Fulfil thine own intense desire | J |
| And now into my heart inspire | P |
| The power of faith and love | M |
| Then Saviour then to thee I come | Q |
| And find on earth the life the home | R |
| The rest of saints above | M |
Charles Wesley
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