Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Come Thou Fount
This is a poem of gratitude and petition. In the first stanza, the author expresses his love for The Almighty with songs and praise. In the second stanza, the author proclaims his faith when he writes "Here I raise mine Ebenezer;", which is a biblical reference to when Samuel erected the stone between Mispah and Jeshanah as a physical testimony to God's love. This line in the poem can be interpreted as "declaring one's faithfulness". The third stanza confesses the author's tendency to stray, and asks God to "bind my wandering heart to thee". All in all it's a wonderful poem.
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I appreciate how you caught the same two allusions as I did. This is very thorough. Do you think that the first stanza pertaining to the streams was an allusion or not? I was slightly confused on that and desired another intellectual's opinion.
ReplyDeleteIt might be a reference to this passage.
ReplyDeleteJesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water
will thirst again,
14
but whoever drinks of the water that I shall
give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him
will become in him a fountain of water springing up into
everlasting life” (John 4:13, 14).