As Old George Said Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFFAA A HIHIAA A JKJKLA A| Said old George Jones 'All in a hundred years | A |
| 'Tis little time enough and well may make | B |
| This youthful country proud among its peers | A |
| Of progress wooed and won for progress sake | B |
| A splendid city shining by the sea | C |
| And all that count of wealth and worth she owns | D |
| Speaks well enough for our first century ' | E |
| Said old George Jones | D |
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| ''Tis with a country much as 'tis with men | F |
| The fevered morn o' life goes all for gain | G |
| For all the things gain signifies an' then | F |
| We pause to con life's lesson o'er again | F |
| And find if be that wisdom comes with years | A |
| That gettin' gainin' holdin' scarce atones | A |
| Nor pays for all man's toil an' sweat and tears ' | - |
| Said old George Jones | A |
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| 'Not with the golden profit won thro' trade | H |
| Not with the tawdry treasure that we wrest | I |
| From this scarred earth nor things men's hands have made | H |
| Comes any answer to man's age long quest | I |
| Not at the gates of such material goals | A |
| Nor pedigreed cities builded high with stones | A |
| Lies ought to serve or satisfy men's souls ' | - |
| Said old George Jones | A |
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| Said old George Jones 'This is an old man's pray'r | J |
| That gainin' shall not ever wholly serve | K |
| This land o' mine when I drift otherwhere | J |
| To seek what share o' peace I may deserve | K |
| But that the treasure of the one true worth | L |
| Shall gleam at last above my whitening bones | A |
| For wiser mortals of a wiser earth ' | - |
| Said old George Jones | A |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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