The Joy Of The Cross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF HHIJJI GGKLLK MMNOON PPQRRQ STOUUO VVWXYW ZZNA2A2N B2B2C2D2D2C2 E2E2F2G2G2F2 H2H2I2MMI2| Long plunged in sorrow I resign | A |
| My soul to that dear hand of thine | A |
| Without reserve or fear | B |
| That hand shall wipe my streaming eyes | C |
| Or into smiles of glad surprise | C |
| Transform the falling tear | D |
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| My sole possession is thy love | E |
| In earth beneath or heaven above | E |
| I have no other store | F |
| And though with fervent suit I pray | G |
| And importune thee night and day | G |
| I ask thee nothing more | F |
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| My rapid hours pursue the course | H |
| Prescribed them by love's sweetest force | H |
| And I thy sovereign will | I |
| Without a wish to escape my doom | J |
| Though still a sufferer from the womb | J |
| And doomed to suffer still | I |
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| By thy command where'er I stray | G |
| Sorrow attends me all my way | G |
| A never failing friend | K |
| And if my sufferings may augment | L |
| Thy praise behold me well content | L |
| Let sorrow still attend | K |
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| It cost me no regret that she | M |
| Who followed Christ should follow me | M |
| And though where'er she goes | N |
| Thorns spring spontaneous at her feet | O |
| I love her and extract a sweet | O |
| From all my bitter woes | N |
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| Adieu ye vain delights of earth | P |
| Insipid sports and childish mirth | P |
| I taste no sweets in you | Q |
| Unknown delights are in the cross | R |
| All joy beside to me is dross | R |
| And Jesus thought so too | Q |
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| The cross Oh ravishment and bliss | S |
| How grateful e'en its anguish is | T |
| Its bitterness how sweet | O |
| There every sense and all the mind | U |
| In all her faculties refined | U |
| Tastes happiness complete | O |
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| Souls once enabled to disdain | V |
| Base sublunary joys maintain | V |
| Their dignity secure | W |
| The fever of desire is passed | X |
| And love has all its genuine taste | Y |
| Is delicate and pure | W |
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| Self love no grace in sorrow sees | Z |
| Consults her own peculiar ease | Z |
| 'Tis all the bliss she knows | N |
| But nobler aims true Love employ | A2 |
| In self denial is her joy | A2 |
| In suffering her repose | N |
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| Sorrow and love go side by side | B2 |
| Nor height nor depth can e'er divide | B2 |
| Their heaven appointed bands | C2 |
| Those dear associates still are one | D2 |
| Nor till the race of life is run | D2 |
| Disjoin their wedded hands | C2 |
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| Jesus avenger of our fall | E2 |
| Thou faithful lover above all | E2 |
| The cross has ever borne | F2 |
| Oh tell me life is in thy voice | G2 |
| How much afflictions were thy choice | G2 |
| And sloth and ease thy scorn | F2 |
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| Thy choice and mine shall be the same | H2 |
| Inspirer of that holy flame | H2 |
| Which must for ever blaze | I2 |
| To take the cross and follow thee | M |
| Where love and duty lead shall be | M |
| My portion and my praise | I2 |
William Cowper
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