The Joy If Church Fellowship Rightly Attended Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIHEF JKJBEF LMLMEF NONMEFIn heaven soaring up I dropped an ear | A |
On earth and Oh sweet melody | B |
And listening found it was the saints who were | C |
Encroached for Heaven that sang for joy | D |
For in Christ's coach they sweetly sing | E |
As they to glory ride therein | F |
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Oh joyous hearts Enfired with holy flame | G |
Is speech thus tassled with praise | H |
Will not your inward fire of joy contain | I |
That it in open flames doth blaze | H |
For in Christ's coach saints sweetly sing | E |
As they to glory ride therein | F |
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And if a string do slip by chance they soon | J |
Do screw it up again whereby | K |
They set it in a more melodious tune | J |
And a diviner harmony | B |
For in Christ's coach they sweetly sing | E |
As they to glory ride therein | F |
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In all their acts public and private nay | L |
And secret too they praise impart | M |
But in their acts divine and worship they | L |
With hymns do offer up their heart | M |
Thus in Christ's coach they sweetly sing | E |
As they to glory ride therein | F |
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Some few not in and some whose time and place | N |
Block up this coach's way do go | O |
As travelers afoot and so do trace | N |
The road that gives them right thereto | M |
While in this coach these sweetly sing | E |
As they to glory ride therein | F |
Edward Taylor
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