Hymn 9 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDED FGHG IJKA FLML NOPO GQFR STUH NGAG VWFW XYHA| The promises of the covenant of grace | A |
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| Isa Zech Mic Ezek etc | B |
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| In vain we lavish out our lives | C |
| To gather empty wind | D |
| The choicest blessings earth can yield | E |
| Will starve a hungry mind | D |
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| Come and the Lord shall feed our souls | F |
| With more substantial meat | G |
| With such as saints in glory love | H |
| With such as angels eat | G |
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| Our God will every want supply | I |
| And fill our hearts with peace | J |
| He gives by cov'nant and by oath | K |
| The riches of his grace | A |
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| Come and he'll cleanse our spotted souls | F |
| And wash away our stains | L |
| In the dear fountain that his Son | M |
| Poured from his dying veins | L |
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| Our guilt shall vanish all away | N |
| Though black as hell before | O |
| Our sins shall sink beneath the sea | P |
| And shall be found no more | O |
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| And lest pollution should o'erspread | G |
| Our inward powers again | Q |
| His Spirit shall bedew our souls | F |
| Like purifying rain | R |
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| Our heart that flinty stubborn thing | S |
| That terrors cannot move | T |
| That fears no threat'nings of his wrath | U |
| Shall be dissolved by love | H |
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| Or he can take the flint away | N |
| That would not be refined | G |
| And from the treasures of his grace | A |
| Bestow a softer mind | G |
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| There shall his sacred Spirit dwell | V |
| And deep engrave his law | W |
| And every motion of our souls | F |
| To swift obedience draw | W |
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| Thus will he pour salvation down | X |
| And we shall render praise | Y |
| We the dear people of his love | H |
| And he our God of grace | A |
Isaac Watts
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