One Giant Allusion

     When I first read over "Come thou fount" this week I thought the only allusion was the line "Here I raise mine Ebenezer," but I found this line was only a part of what the true meaning to the song is.  When I read the poem as a whole I thought the author was just trying to pronounce his faith in the Lord, but then I realized that the poem was about the life cycle of a Christian.  In the first stanza it describes the early life of an unbeliever (or a wandering Christian) asking Christ to come into their life, "tune my heart to sing thy grace" and "Teach me some melodies sonnet" are some examples.  The second stanza describes how once he is saved now he's on fire for Christ and is so grateful that He came into his life.  As portrayed in the line "Here I raise mine Ebenezer" he says he has risen his "stone  of help" to help God however he wants him to use him.  In the second half of the second stanza he states that "Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God" stating how he was lost but Jesus saved him.  In the third and final stanza, it describes when a Christian has been a Christian for a long time and he starts to drift away (if he does not study God regularly), but he does not want that to happen so he writes, "Bind my wandering heart to thee".  In the last two lines he begs Jesus to prevent him from wandering away "here's my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above".  The author wrote this hymn as one giant allusion to life as a Christian and his hope in Christ.