The Ministering Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB C DEDF GGHH IIJJ KKLL MNOO| On Canaan's fairest borders in thought I seemed to stand | A |
| I'd left my broken palace for this long wished for land | A |
| On earth for me they're mourning friends weeping sad and low | B |
| It seemed the bells were sobbing my joy there none could know | B |
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| CHORUS | C |
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| Most Gracious King One Lord in Three | D |
| All Heaven in anthems rung | E |
| Hosanna praise triumphantly | D |
| Rejoice for the lost Christ won | F |
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| On earth loved ones were sighing around my vacant chair | G |
| Our risen Lord forgetting smiles turn to lines of care | G |
| In Heaven the waves of gladness from gate to gate doth roll | H |
| And Christ now changed my spirit into a ministering soul | H |
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| From beauties of Christ's kingdom I came to earth by night | I |
| To mine I whispered comfort breathed of celestial light | I |
| I hovered near the aged who sorrowed till the end | J |
| And soothed the restless slumbers of those who knew no friend | J |
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| Into the lowly dwellings where mother's cheeks grew pale | K |
| I kissed the fading forehead and hushed the infant's wail | K |
| The wrath of men appeasing to weary laborers gave | L |
| A greeting smile and told them Christ came on earth to save | L |
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| Moan not O bells but joyous ring out your Christian souls | M |
| Eternity all wondrous brightly to them unfolds | N |
| From death to life their changing let glorias float afar | O |
| Our loved our lost are watching within the gates ajar | O |
Mary Alice Walton
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