The Way To Happiness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJKL MMJJNH OOPPQQOORR| How long ye miserable blind | A |
| Shall idle dreams engage your mind | A |
| How long the passions make their flight | B |
| At empty shadows of delight | B |
| No more in paths of error stray | C |
| The Lord thy Jesus is the way | C |
| The spring of happiness and where | D |
| Shou'd men seek happiness but there | D |
| Then run to meet him at your need | E |
| Run with boldness run with speed | E |
| For he forsook his own abode | F |
| To meet thee more than half the road | F |
| He laid aside his radiant crown | G |
| And love for mankind brought him down | G |
| To thirst and hunger pain and woe | H |
| To wounds to death it self below | H |
| And he that suffer'd these alone | I |
| For all the World despises none | J |
| To bid the soul that's sick be clean | K |
| To bring the lost to life again | L |
| To comfort those that grieve for ill | M |
| Is his peculiar goodness still | M |
| And as the thoughts of parents run | J |
| Upon a dear and only son | J |
| So kind a love his mercies shew | N |
| So kind and more extreamly so | H |
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| Thrice happy men or find a phrase | O |
| That speaks your bliss with greater praise | O |
| Who most obedient to thy call | P |
| Leaving pleasures leaving all | P |
| With heart with soul with strength incline | Q |
| O sweetest Jesu to be thine | Q |
| Who know thy will observe thy ways | O |
| And in thy service spend their days | O |
| E'en death that seems to set them free | R |
| But brings them closer still to thee | R |
Thomas Parnell
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