Hymn 74 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCBB DDEE FGHI JKLM NOBB BBPP BBQR SSTUThe church the garden of Christ | A |
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SS | B |
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We are a garden walled around | C |
Chosen and made peculiar ground | C |
A little spot enclosed by grace | B |
Out of the world's wide wilderness | B |
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Like trees of myrrh and spice we stand | D |
Planted by God the Father's hand | D |
And all his springs in Zion flow | E |
To make the young plantation grow | E |
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Awake O heav'nly wind and come | F |
Blow on this garden of perfume | G |
Spirit divine descend and breathe | H |
A gracious gale on plants beneath | I |
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Make our best spices flow abroad | J |
To entertain our Savior God | K |
And faith and love and joy appear | L |
And every grace be active here | M |
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Let my Beloved come and taste | N |
His pleasant fruits at his own feast | O |
I come my spouse I come he cries | B |
With love and pleasure in his eyes | B |
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Our Lord into his garden comes | B |
Well pleased to smell our poor perfumes | B |
And calls us to a feast divine | P |
Sweeter than honey milk or wine | P |
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Eat of the tree of life my friends | B |
The blessings that my Father sends | B |
Your taste shall all my dainties prove | Q |
And drink abundance of my love | R |
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Jesus we will frequent thy board | S |
And sing the bounties of our Lord | S |
But the rich food on which we live | T |
Demands more praise than tongues can give | U |
Isaac Watts
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