For I Long To Be There Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDBB EEBB FFBB| Dear Father in Heaven to Thee I would raise | A |
| A petition and speak to Thy bountiful praise | A |
| At Thy throne of grace I would offer one prayer | B |
| Take me to Thyself for I long to be there | B |
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| Dear Saviour I plead Thou art tender and kind | C |
| O'er flowing with love for me Thou canst find | C |
| A safe resting place that is free from all care | B |
| Press me to Thy heart for I long to be there | B |
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| Fair angels of light who with melodies sweet | D |
| Make beautiful homes a celestial retreat | D |
| In happiness pure a full part I would share | B |
| I'd come to your home for I long to be there | B |
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| While pleasures are few and hope but a name | E |
| While worldliness reigns o'er all things the same | E |
| Our joys are in dreams of bright Eden fair | B |
| I'd flee to Thy rest for I long to be there | B |
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| I am weary of life the burdened filled day | F |
| On the echoless shore in peace I would stray | F |
| Forgetting all sorrow for Christ will it bear | B |
| O take me to Jesus for I long to be there | B |
Mary Alice Walton
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