Dedication Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI KLAL MNMN OPCP DQ FQ JRSR DRCR TUJU COVO DWXW YZA2Z B2C2D2C2| Outcast from her home in Syria | A |
| In the lonely dreary wild | B |
| Heavy hearted sorrow stricken | C |
| Sat a mother and her child | B |
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| There was not a voice to cheer her | D |
| Not a soul to share her fate | E |
| She was weary he was fainting | F |
| And life seemed so desolate | G |
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| Far away in sunny Egypt | H |
| Was lone Hagar's native land | I |
| Where the Nile in kingly bounty | J |
| Scatters bread with gracious hand | I |
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| In the tents of princely Abram | K |
| She for years had found a home | L |
| Till the stern decree of Sarah | A |
| Sent her forth the wild to roam | L |
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| Hour by hour she journeyed onward | M |
| From the shelter of their tent | N |
| Till her footsteps slowly faltered | M |
| And the water all was spent | N |
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| Then she veiled her face in sorrow | O |
| Feared her child would die of thirst | P |
| Till her eyes with tears so holden | C |
| Saw a sparkling fountain burst | P |
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| Oh how happy was that mother | D |
| What a soothing of her pain | Q |
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| When she saw her child reviving | F |
| Life rejoicing through each vein | Q |
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| Does not life repeat this story | J |
| Tell it over day by day | R |
| Of the fountains of refreshment | S |
| Ever springing by our way | R |
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| Here is one by which we gather | D |
| On this bright and happy day | R |
| Just to bask beside a fountain | C |
| Making gladder life's highway | R |
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| Bringing unto hearts now aged | T |
| Who have borne life's burdens long | U |
| Such a gift of love and mercy | J |
| As deserves our sweetest song | U |
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| Such a gift that even heaven | C |
| May rejoice with us below | O |
| If the pure and holy angels | V |
| Join us in our joy and woe | O |
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| May the memory of the giver | D |
| In this home where age may rest | W |
| Float like fragrance through the ages | X |
| Ever blessing ever blest | W |
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| When the gates of pearl are opened | Y |
| May we there this friend behold | Z |
| Drink with him from living fountains | A2 |
| Walk with him the streets of gold | Z |
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| When life's shattered cords of music | B2 |
| Shall again be sweetly sung | C2 |
| Then our hearts with life immortal | D2 |
| Shall be young forever young | C2 |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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