Dedicatory Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM KKNN HHOP QRSS TTUU TTHH T| Dear Carrie were we truly wise | A |
| And could discern with finer eyes | A |
| And half inspired sense | B |
| The ways of Providence | C |
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| Could we but know the hidden things | D |
| That brood beneath the Future's wings | D |
| Hermetically sealed | E |
| But soon to be revealed | E |
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| Would we more blest than we are now | F |
| In due submission learn to bow | F |
| Receiving on our knees | G |
| The Omnipotent decrees | G |
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| That which is just we have And we | H |
| Who lead this round of mystery | H |
| This dance of strange unrest | I |
| What are we at the best | I |
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| Unless we learn to mount and climb | J |
| Writing upon the page of time | J |
| In words of joy or pain | K |
| That we've not lived in vain | K |
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| We all are Ministers of Good | L |
| And where our mission's understood | L |
| How many hearts we must | M |
| Raise trembling from the dust | M |
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| Oh strong young soul and thinking brain | K |
| Walk wisely through the fair domain | K |
| Where burn the sacred fires | N |
| Of Music's sweet desires | N |
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| Cherish thy Gift and let it be | H |
| A Jacob's ladder unto thee | H |
| Down which the Angels come | O |
| To bring thee dreams of Home | P |
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| What were we if the pulse of Song | Q |
| Had never beat nor found a tongue | R |
| To make the Poet known | S |
| In lands beyond his own | S |
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| Take what is said for what is meant | T |
| We sometimes touch the firmament | T |
| Of starry Thought no more | U |
| Beyond we may not soar | U |
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| I speak not of myself but stand | T |
| In silence till the Master Hand | T |
| Each fluttering thought sets free | H |
| God holds the golden key | H |
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| Kingston C W May st | T |
Charles Sangster
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