Epitaph Vii. On The Monument Of The Honourable Egbert Digby, And His Sister Mary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCAADDEE FFAAGH IIJK A| Erected By Their Father The Lord Digby In The Church Of Sherborne In Dorsetshire | A |
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| Go fair example of untainted youth | B |
| Of modest wisdom and pacific truth | B |
| Composed in sufferings and in joy sedate | C |
| Good without noise without pretension great | C |
| Just of thy word in every thought sincere | A |
| Who knew no wish but what the world might hear | A |
| Of softest manners unaffected mind | D |
| Lover of peace and friend of human kind | D |
| Go live for Heaven's eternal year is thine | E |
| Go and exalt thy moral to divine | E |
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| And thou bless'd maid attendant on his doom | F |
| Pensive hast follow'd to the silent tomb | F |
| Steer'd the same course to the same quiet shore | A |
| Not parted long and now to part no more | A |
| Go then where only bliss sincere is known | G |
| Go where to love and to enjoy are one | H |
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| Yet take these tears Mortality's relief | I |
| And till we share your joys forgive our grief | I |
| These little rites a stone a verse receive | J |
| 'Tis all a father all a friend can give | K |
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| 'Heaven's eternal year is thine ' borrowed from Dryden's poem on Mrs Killigrew | A |
Alexander Pope
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