The Glories Of The Present Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFCCGG HHIIJJKK EELLAAMN| WHAT of the glories after death | A |
| When this frail form gives up its breath | A |
| Why do we strive to understand | B |
| The Future when the Now's at hand | B |
| What matters it to you and me | C |
| That o'er some dark mysterious sea | C |
| Whereon we all must sail some day | D |
| Awaits a port where we must stay | D |
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| It is enough for me to know | E |
| A brighter place there is to go | E |
| I ask not when will come my time | F |
| Whether the road is hard to climb | F |
| What glories there await for me | C |
| I would not solve Death's mystery | C |
| And still live on I am content | G |
| To live the life that God has sent | G |
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| Now is the problem that I strive | H |
| To solve while I am yet alive | H |
| What am I here for what to do | I |
| Am I unto my purpose true | I |
| Do I live every day a man | J |
| Helping and cheering where I can | J |
| Am I employing every hour | K |
| For deeds of good my gift of power | K |
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| This is what I prefer to know | E |
| Not when or whither I must go | E |
| No thought of Future lines my brow | L |
| Mine is the problem of the Now | L |
| My hopes are not on after death | A |
| But on today while I have breath | A |
| If I have done my best while here | M |
| I'll face hereafter without fear | N |
Edgar Albert Guest
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