Olney Hymn 5: Jehovah-shalom: The Lord Send Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIJI KLML INIO| Jesus whose blood so freely stream'd | A |
| To satisfy the law's demand | B |
| By Thee from guilt and wrath redeem'd | A |
| Before the Father's face I stand | B |
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| To reconcile offending man | C |
| Make Justice drop her angry rod | D |
| What creature could have form'd the plan | C |
| Or who fulfil it but a God | D |
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| No drop remains of all the curse | E |
| For wretches who deserved the whole | F |
| No arrows dipt in wrath to pierce | G |
| The guilty but returning soul | F |
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| Peace by such means so dearly bought | H |
| What rebel could have hoped to see | I |
| Peace by his injured Sovereign wrought | J |
| His Sovereign fasten'd to a tree | I |
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| Now Lord Thy feeble worm prepare | K |
| For strife with earth and hell begins | L |
| Conform and gird me for the war | M |
| They hate the soul that hates his sins | L |
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| Let them in horrid league agree | I |
| They may assault they may distress | N |
| But cannot quench Thy love to me | I |
| Nor rob me of the Lord my peace | O |
William Cowper
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