Were Not The Sinful Mary's Tears. (air.--stevenson.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDEFGFG HIHJ KBKB| Were not the sinful Mary's tears | A |
| An offering worthy Heaven | B |
| When o'er the faults of former years | C |
| She wept and was forgiven | B |
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| When bringing every balmy sweet | D |
| Her day of luxury stored | E |
| She o'er her Saviour's hallowed feet | D |
| The precious odors poured | E |
| And wiped them with that golden hair | F |
| Where once the diamond shone | G |
| Tho' now those gems of grief were there | F |
| Which shine for GOD alone | G |
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| Were not those sweets so humbly shed | H |
| That hair those weeping eyes | I |
| And the sunk heart that inly bled | H |
| Heaven's noblest sacrifice | J |
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| Thou that hast slept in error's sleep | K |
| Oh would'st thou wake in Heaven | B |
| Like Mary kneel like Mary weep | K |
| Love much and be forgiven | B |
Thomas Moore
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