From Laughter To Labor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDDDEE BBFFGG| We have wandered afar in our hunting for pleasure | A |
| We have scorned the soul's duty to gather up treasure | A |
| We have lived for our laughter and toiled for our winning | B |
| And paid little heed to the soul's simple sinning | B |
| But light were the burdens that freighted us then | C |
| God and country to day let us prove we are men | C |
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| We have idled and dreamed in life's merriest places | D |
| The years have writ little of care in our faces | D |
| We have brought up our children expectant of gladness | D |
| And little we've taught them of life and its sadness | D |
| For distant and dim seemed the forces of wrong | E |
| God and country to day let us prove we are strong | E |
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| We have had our glad years now the sad years are coming | B |
| We have danced to gay tunes now we march to war's drumming | B |
| We have laughed and have loved as we pleasantly toiled | F |
| And now we must show that our souls are unspoiled | F |
| We must work that our Flag shall in honor still wave | G |
| God and country to day let us prove we are brave | G |
Edgar Albert Guest
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