The Little Church Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDBBDDEEFFGGHHI IJJKKLLMMHH| er in the family pew and fumbled with my hat | A |
| How I would like to see it now the way I saw it then | B |
| The straight backed pews the pulpit high the women and the men | B |
| Dressed stiffly in their Sunday clothes and solemnly devout | C |
| Who closed their eyes when prayers were said and never looked about | C |
| That little church of Long Ago it wasn't grand to see | D |
| But even as a little boy it meant a lot to me | D |
| The choir loft where father sang comes back to me again | B |
| I hear his tenor voice once more the way I heard it when | B |
| The deacons used to pass the plate and once again I see | D |
| The people fumbling for their coins as glad as they could be | D |
| To drop their quarters on the plate and I'm a boy once more | E |
| With my two pennies in my fist that mother gave before | E |
| We left the house and once again I'm reaching out to try | F |
| To drop them on the plate before the deacon passes by | F |
| It seems to me I'm sitting in that high backed pew the while | G |
| The minister is preaching in that good old fashioned style | G |
| And though I couldn't understand it all somehow I know | H |
| The Bible was the text book in that church of Long Ago | H |
| He didn't preach on politics but used the word of God | I |
| And even now I seem to see the people gravely nod | I |
| As though agreeing thoroughly with all he had to say | J |
| And then I see them thanking him before they go away | J |
| The little church of Long Ago was not a structure huge | K |
| It had no hired singers or no other subterfuge | K |
| To get the people to attend 'twas just a simple place | L |
| Where every Sunday we were told about God's saving grace | L |
| No men of wealth were gathered there to help it with a gift | M |
| The only worldly thing it had a mortgage hard to lift | M |
| And somehow dreaming here to day I wish that I could know | H |
| The joy of once more sitting in that church of Long Ago | H |
Edgar Albert Guest
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