Hymn 73 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDBB BBEE FFBB GHBB BBBB IIGH BBJJThe 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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