A Living And A Dead Faith. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN| The Lord receives his highest praise | A |
| From humble minds and hearts sincere | B |
| While all the loud professor says | C |
| Offends the righteous Judge's ear | D |
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| To walk as children of the day | E |
| To mark the precepts' holy light | F |
| To wage the warfare watch and pray | E |
| Show who are pleasing in his sight | F |
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| Not words alone it cost the Lord | G |
| To purchase pardon for his own | H |
| Nor will a soul by grace restored | G |
| Return the Saviour words alone | H |
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| With golden bells the priestly vest | I |
| And rich pomegranates border'd round | J |
| The need of holiness express'd | I |
| And call'd for fruit as well as sound | J |
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| Easy indeed it were to reach | K |
| A mansion in the courts above | L |
| If swelling words and fluent speech | K |
| Might serve instead of faith and love | L |
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| But none shall gain the blissful place | M |
| Or God's unclouded glory see | N |
| Who talks of free and sovereign grace | M |
| Unless that grace has made him free | N |
William Cowper
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