Hymn Xvi: Happy The Souls That First Believed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE AAFF EGAA HIJK LLMN OODD NMAA PPJK| Happy the souls that first believed | A |
| To Jesus and each other cleaved | A |
| Joined by the unction from above | B |
| In mystic fellowship of love | B |
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| Meek simple followers of the Lamb | C |
| They lived and spake and thought the same | D |
| They joyfully conspired to raise | E |
| Their ceaseless sacrifice of praise | E |
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| With grace abundantly endued | A |
| A pure believing multitude | A |
| They all were of one heart and soul | F |
| And only love inspired the whole | F |
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| O what an age of golden days | E |
| O what a choice peculiar race | G |
| Washed in the Lamb's all cleansing blood | A |
| Anointed kings and priests to God | A |
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| Ye different sects who all declare | H |
| Lo here is Christ or Christ is here | I |
| Your stronger proofs divinely give | J |
| And show me where the Christians live | K |
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| The gates of hell cannot prevail | L |
| The church on earth can never fail | L |
| Ah join me to thy secret ones | M |
| Ah gather all thy living stones | N |
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| Scattered o'er all the earth they lie | O |
| Till thou collect them with thine eye | O |
| Draw by the music of thy name | D |
| And charm into a beauteous frame | D |
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| For this the pleading Spirit groans | N |
| And cries in all thy banished ones | M |
| Greatest of gifts thy love impart | A |
| And make us of one mind and heart | A |
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| Join every soul that looks to thee | P |
| In bonds of perfect charity | P |
| Now Lord the glorious fullness give | J |
| And all in all for ever live | K |
John Wesley
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