Hymn 73 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDBB BBEE FFBB GHBB BBBB IIGH BBJJ| The church's beauty in the eyes of Christ | A |
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| SS | B |
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| Kind is the speech of Christ our Lord | C |
| Affection sounds in every word | D |
| Lo thou art fair my love he cries | B |
| Not the young doves have sweeter eyes | B |
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| Sweet are thy lips thy pleasing voice | B |
| Salutes mine ear with secret joys | B |
| No spice so much delights the smell | E |
| Nor milk nor honey tastes so well | E |
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| Thou art all fair my bride to me | F |
| I will behold no spot in thee | F |
| What mighty wonders love performs | B |
| And puts a comeliness on worms | B |
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| Defiled and loathsome as we are | G |
| He makes us white and calls us fair | H |
| Adorns us with that heav'nly dress | B |
| His graces and his righteousness | B |
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| My sister and my spouse he cries | B |
| Bound to my heart by various ties | B |
| Thy powerful love my heart detains | B |
| In strong delight and pleasing chains | B |
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| He calls me from the leopard's den | I |
| From this wild world of beasts and men | I |
| To Zion where his glories are | G |
| Not Lebanon is half so fair | H |
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| Nor dens of prey nor flowery plains | B |
| Nor earthly joys nor earthly pains | B |
| Shall hold my feet or force my stay | J |
| When Christ invites my soul away | J |
Isaac Watts
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