Let The Beasts Their Breath Resign Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFEEEEEE GGEEEEEE HHEEEEEELet the beasts their breath resign | A |
Strangers to the life divine | A |
Who their God can never know | B |
Let their spirit downward go | B |
You for higher ends were born | C |
You may all to God return | D |
Dwell with him above the sky | E |
Why will you for ever die | E |
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You on whom he favours showers | F |
You possest of nobler powers | F |
You of reason's powers possest | E |
You with will and memory blest | E |
You with finer sense endued | E |
Creatures capable of God | E |
Noblest of his creatures why | E |
Why will you for ever die | E |
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You whom he ordained to be | G |
Transcripts of the Deity | G |
You whom he in life doth hold | E |
You for whom himself was sold | E |
You on whom he still doth wait | E |
Whom he would again create | E |
Made by him and purchased why | E |
Why will you for ever die | E |
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You who own his record true | H |
You his chosen people you | H |
You who call the Saviour Lord | E |
You who read his written word | E |
You who see the gospel light | E |
Claim a crown in Jesu's right | E |
Why will you ye Christians why | E |
Will the house of Israel die | E |
Charles Wesley
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