Consolation In Bereavement. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEECDFFGGHICDJJ KKCCGLMM| 'Tis not when we look on the dreamless dead | A |
| And feel that the spirit forever has fled | A |
| 'Tis not when we're called to the voiceless tomb | B |
| By the loved who were culled in their brightest bloom | B |
| 'Tis not when the grave's last rite is o'er | C |
| And we know they are gone to return no more | D |
| But oh 'tis when Time with oblivious wing | E |
| A balm to all other hearts may bring | E |
| When the dark dark hours of grief are o'er | C |
| And we join the world we can love no more | D |
| That world whose grief for the absent one | F |
| Passed like a cloud from an April sun | F |
| When amid the mirth that salutes the ear | G |
| One tone is gone we had used to hear | G |
| One form is missed in that happy train | H |
| That will never exult in its sports again | I |
| We feel that death has indeed passed o'er | C |
| And a blank is left to be filled no more | D |
| But though the world and its witching smile | J |
| That cheats the heart of its woes awhile | J |
| Would prove in its time of deepest need | K |
| But the frail support of a broken reed | K |
| Religion's beam has the magic power | C |
| To chase the cloud from its darkest hour | C |
| To turn the soul from its idols here | G |
| And fix its hopes on a purer sphere | L |
| Then land it safe in a port of rest | M |
| The haven sure of a Saviour's breast | M |
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
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