None Upon Earth I Desire Besides Thee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDCD EBEBFGFG BHBHIGJK LMLMFNFN| How tedious and tasteless the hours | A |
| When Jesus no longer I see | B |
| Sweet prospects sweet birds and sweet flow'rs | B |
| Have lost all their sweetness with me | B |
| The mid summer sun shines but dim | C |
| The fields strive in vain to look gay | D |
| But when I am happy in Him | C |
| December's as pleasant as May | D |
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| His name yields the richest perfume | E |
| And sweeter than music his voice | B |
| His presence disperses my gloom | E |
| And makes all within me rejoice | B |
| I should were he always thus nigh | F |
| Have nothing to wish or to fear | G |
| No mortal so happy as I | F |
| My summer would last all the year | G |
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| Content with beholding his face | B |
| My all to his pleasure resigned | H |
| No changes of season or place | B |
| Would make any change in my mind | H |
| While blessed with a sense of his love | I |
| A palace a toy would appear | G |
| And prisons would palaces prove | J |
| If Jesus would dwell with me there | K |
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| Dear Lord if indeed I am thine | L |
| If thou art my sun and my song | M |
| Say why do I languish and pine | L |
| And why are my winters so long | M |
| O drive these dark clouds from my sky | F |
| Thy soul cheering presence restore | N |
| Or take me unto thee on high | F |
| Where winter and clouds are no more | N |
John Newton
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