The Creed Of Old George Jones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCAA ADADEEFG AHAHIIAA JKLKCCAA| A little of fretting a little of getting | A |
| A little of slaving and saving may be | B |
| A little of spending a little of lending | A |
| And giving up living be easy and free | B |
| But a man gathers and all a man owns | C |
| Goes out at the finish said old George Jones | C |
| Like a spark in the dark and the sum of his trying | A |
| A name and a memory drifting and dying | A |
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| A little of blund'ring a little of wond'ring | A |
| A little of scheming and dreaming when young | D |
| A little of grieving a little believing | A |
| In secret strange things that come slow to the tongue | D |
| For every man is a being apart | E |
| And none may look deep in his fellow man's heart | E |
| Scholars and strangers chance met in life's college | F |
| But tolerance grows with the sum of our knowledge | G |
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| And I who have tarried o'er long with the living | A |
| Have come to a creed that gives hope of content | H |
| In getting and spending is grief but in giving | A |
| Is all that this riddle of life ever meant | H |
| For life is a riddle an tho' I grow old | I |
| Still fit as a fiddle to one creed I hold | I |
| 'Tis getting moves man while to life he is cleaving | A |
| But giving looms large when it comes to his leaving | A |
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| A little of sorrow of plans for tomorrow | J |
| A little of helping the weak and the fool | K |
| A little of laughter and all that comes after | L |
| Is one lesson learned in life's arduous school | K |
| For all a man gathers and all a man owns | C |
| But ends in a heartache said old George Jones | C |
| Like a spark in the dark comes an end to his living | A |
| And all that live after the sum of his giving | A |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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