Ministering Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEDE FBFB GHGI JKJK LILI MNMN OPOP IQIQ JJJJ RSRS TUTU VWVX YZYZ A2IA2I B2DB2D EVEV C2EC2E D2ID2I KJKJ| And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward and | A |
| Susanna and many others who ministered unto him of their | B |
| substance Luke Mark John | C |
| Matthew Luke John | C |
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| Those women who their Christ and Lord | D |
| Aided by gentle ministry | E |
| Have gained their race a rich reward | D |
| Treasured in sacred history | E |
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| Joanna is unknown at court | F |
| Although entitled to be there | B |
| The record of her life's report | F |
| In fadeless glory has its share | B |
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| Susanna's name is intertwined | G |
| A gem as sparkling and as clear | H |
| As those with which it is enshrined | G |
| And this is all we know of her | I |
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| And those whose names have not been given | J |
| Are now in realms of light and love | K |
| Praising him mid the choirs of heaven | J |
| Crowned with his joy and peace and love | K |
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| Mary of Magdala was brought | L |
| From mysteries strange and dark and drear | I |
| To heights with joy and gladness fraught | L |
| She radiates a luster clear | I |
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| Those chimes from Bethany will ring | M |
| With power that will not cannot die | N |
| Martha's and Mary's names will sing | M |
| Long as the flitting centuries fly | N |
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| That spikenard which 'twas wholly meet | O |
| Mary should pour upon his head | P |
| Has filled with fragrance rare and sweet | O |
| Succeeding ages as they've fled | P |
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| And when a critic standing near | I |
| Censured her act misunderstood | Q |
| Christ spoke so that the world might hear | I |
| He said She hath done what she could | Q |
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| This her memorial while the sun | J |
| Traverses the blue dome of heaven | J |
| Fulfilling while time's cycles run | J |
| Christ's prophecy which then was given | J |
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| Unto the end these faithful few | R |
| Regardless of all pain and loss | S |
| Did what their hearts and hands could do | R |
| Though bowed with wonder at the cross | S |
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| Such love they could not understand | T |
| Such love unto his latest breath | U |
| That love had our redemption planned | T |
| Both in his life and in his death | U |
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| They haunt the tomb in which he lay | V |
| Grief stricken desolate and lone | W |
| But Magdalene at break of day | V |
| Found that her precious charge was gone | X |
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| Two angels said Why weepest thou | Y |
| The angels knew ere they inquired | Z |
| They knew her heart could triumph now | Y |
| These sinless ones by love inspired | Z |
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| She weeping told her loss and woe | A2 |
| Then answered thus a questioner near | I |
| Sir if thou dost his refuge know | A2 |
| Tell me I seek him vainly here | I |
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| Mary She listened to her name | B2 |
| Uttered by Christ her risen Lord | D |
| Master her trembling lips exclaim | B2 |
| Then wondered worshipped and adored | D |
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| Her joy is ours Oh may we see | E |
| That joy more plainly every day | V |
| Christ lives and loves eternally | E |
| Swift feet such tidings should convey | V |
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| Eternal life and heavenly rest | C2 |
| He purchased by death's agony | E |
| That whosoever will be blest | C2 |
| With glorious immortality | E |
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| May we our sisters of the past | D2 |
| In life and character revere | I |
| Like them be faithful to the last | D2 |
| Like them be loving and sincere | I |
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| First must the gospel plan of love | K |
| To every land and tribe be given | J |
| Ere He'll return who from above | K |
| Is God's best gift to earth from heaven | J |
Nannie R. Glass
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