The Joy If Church Fellowship Rightly Attended Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIHEF JKJBEF LMLMEF NONMEF| In 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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