Hymn 158 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGFG FHIJ KLKLFew saved or The almost Christian the hypocrite and apostate | A |
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Broad is the road that leads to death | B |
And thousands walk together there | C |
But wisdom shows a narrower path | D |
With here and there a traveller | E |
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Deny thyself and take thy cross | F |
Is the Redeemer's great command | G |
Nature must count her gold but dross | F |
If she would gain this heav'nly land | G |
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The fearful soul that tires and faints | F |
And walks the ways of God no more | H |
Is but esteemed almost a saint | I |
And makes his own destruction sure | J |
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Lord let not all my hopes be vain | K |
Create my heart entirely new | L |
Which hypocrites could ne'er attain | K |
Which false apostates never knew | L |
Isaac Watts
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