Hymn 153 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGFG AHIH JKJK LMNM OKPK| The distemper folly and madness of sin | A |
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| Sin like a venomous disease | B |
| Infects our vital blood | C |
| The only balm is sovereign grace | D |
| And the physician God | E |
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| Our beauty and our strength are fled | F |
| And we draw near to death | G |
| But Christ the Lord recalls the dead | F |
| With his almighty breath | G |
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| Madness by nature reigns within | A |
| The passions burn and rage | H |
| Till God's own Son with skill divine | I |
| The inward fire assuage | H |
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| We lick the dust we grasp the wind | J |
| And solid good despise | K |
| Such is the folly of the mind | J |
| Till Jesus makes us wise | K |
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| We give our souls the wounds they feel | L |
| We drink the pois'nous gall | M |
| And rush with fury down to hell | N |
| But Heav'n prevents the fall | M |
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| The man possessed among the tombs | O |
| Cuts his own flesh and cries | K |
| He foams and raves till Jesus comes | P |
| And the foul spirit flies | K |
Isaac Watts
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