The Land Of The Gone-away Souls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC DEDFEF CGCHGH EIJKIK BLBDLD| Oh that is a beautiful land I wis | A |
| The land of the Gone away Souls | B |
| Yes a lovelier region by far than this | A |
| Though this is a world most fair | C |
| The goodliest goal of all good goals | B |
| Else why do our friends stay there | C |
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| I walk in a world that is sweet with friends | D |
| And earth I have ever held dear | E |
| Yes love with duty and beauty blends | D |
| To render the earth place bright | F |
| But faster and faster year on year | E |
| My comrades hurry from sight | F |
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| They hurry away to the Over There | C |
| And few of them say farewell | G |
| Yes they go away with a secret air | C |
| As if on a secret quest | H |
| And they come not back to earth to tell | G |
| Why that land seems the best | H |
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| Messages come from the mystic sphere | E |
| But few know the code of that land | I |
| Yes many the message but few who hear | J |
| In the din of the world below | K |
| Or hearing the message can understand | I |
| Those truths which we long to know | K |
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| But it must be the goal of all good goals | B |
| And I think of it more and more | L |
| Yes think of that land of the Gone Away Souls | B |
| And its growing hosts of friends | D |
| Who will hail my bark when it touches shore | L |
| Where the last brief journey ends | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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