Vanity Of The Creature Sanctified Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HHII JJKL MNOP QQRR IIGG| Honey though the bee prepares | A |
| An envenomed sting he wears | A |
| Piercing thorns a guard compose | B |
| Round the fragrant blooming rose | B |
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| Where we think to find a sweet | C |
| Oft a painful sting we meet | C |
| When the rose invites our eye | D |
| We forget the thorn is nigh | D |
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| Why are thus our hopes beguiled | E |
| Why are all our pleasures spoiled | F |
| Why do agony and woe | G |
| From our choicest comforts grow | G |
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| Sin has been the cause of all | H |
| 'Twas not thus before the fall | H |
| What but pain and thorn and sting | I |
| From the root of sin can spring | I |
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| Now with every good we find | J |
| Vanity and grief entwined | J |
| What we feel or what we fear | K |
| All our joys embitter here | L |
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| Yet through the Redeemer's love | M |
| These afflictions blessings prove | N |
| He the wounding stings and thorns | O |
| Into healing med'cines turns | P |
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| From the earth our hearts they wean | Q |
| Teach us on his arm to lean | Q |
| Urge us to a throne of grace | R |
| Make us seek a resting place | R |
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| In the mansions of our King | I |
| Sweets abound without a sting | I |
| Thornless there the roses blow | G |
| And the joys unmingled flow | G |
John Newton
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