William Henry Groom Vale` Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGHHGFIIJJI KKLMNM OHOHPP QRQR| NOW is there rest for heart and brain | A |
| No mandate calls to him again | B |
| The lips that voiced the People s will | C |
| Are powerless now and very still | C |
| The heart that loved the common cause | D |
| The brain that wrought a Nation s laws | E |
| These are no more There only creeps | F |
| The shadow of a common grief | G |
| We who have reaped what he has sown | H |
| Shall we not sorrow for our own | H |
| Though now in silence and relief | G |
| The Tribune of the People sleeps | F |
| Life hath its crowns in War and Art | I |
| In Council Hall and busy Mart | I |
| The noblest that a man may win | J |
| Is that his name shall linger in | J |
| The People s heart | I |
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| For never shall oblivion slight | K |
| The hearts that fight the People s fight | K |
| Much less when thro a life of stress | L |
| One voice gainst countless odds has stood | M |
| And won in pain and bitterness | N |
| The People s good | M |
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| He buildeth best who buildeth sure | O |
| Who year by year lays stone on stone | H |
| Broad based and steadfast to endure | O |
| Whose guerdon is his work alone | H |
| There is no fame to rise above | P |
| The crowning honour of a People s love | P |
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| So leave him to his rest who toiled for all | Q |
| Nor gave his life to pile ill gotten gains | R |
| He passes to obey the Master call | Q |
| His work remains | R |
George Essex Evans
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