Hymn Vii: Let The Beasts Their Breath Resign Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFEEEEEE GGEEEEEE HHEEEEEE| Let the beasts their breath resign | A |
| Strangers to the life divine | A |
| Who their God can never know | B |
| Let their spirit downward go | B |
| You for higher ends were born | C |
| You may all to God return | D |
| Dwell with him above the sky | E |
| Why will you for ever die | E |
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| You on whom he favours showers | F |
| You possest of nobler powers | F |
| You of reason's powers possest | E |
| You with will and memory blest | E |
| You with finer sense endued | E |
| Creatures capable of God | E |
| Noblest of his creatures why | E |
| Why will you for ever die | E |
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| You whom he ordained to be | G |
| Transcripts of the Deity | G |
| You whom he in life doth hold | E |
| You for whom himself was sold | E |
| You on whom he still doth wait | E |
| Whom he would again create | E |
| Made by him and purchased why | E |
| Why will you for ever die | E |
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| You who own his record true | H |
| You his chosen people you | H |
| You who call the Saviour Lord | E |
| You who read his written word | E |
| You who see the gospel light | E |
| Claim a crown in Jesu's right | E |
| Why will you ye Christians why | E |
| Will the house of Israel die | E |
John Wesley
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