Come Thou Fount

     Before I started reading the song, I had to find out what a 'fount' was. (a source or origin.)
"Come, Thou, fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace.
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,"
Here it is very boldly saying that God is the source of each blessing and all the mercy that is put upon us, and the author is asking God to help him express his gratitude for this. I found an allusion when it said "Teach me some melodious sonnet, Sung by flaming tongues above" - the flaming tongues are angels, who are, by far, more adequate at praising and thanking God than we are. I found these lyrics easy to understand, but once I began to decipher them, I found new meanings to what was being said. "Here I raise my ebenezer" is saying, 'I raise my rock of help to remind myself of all the ways that You have helped and protected me in the past.'