Christmas, 1873 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GFGF HIHI FBFB FJFJ| Christmas Days are still in store | A |
| Will they change steal faded hither | B |
| Or come fresh as heretofore | A |
| Summering all our winter weather | B |
| - | |
| Surely they will keep their bloom | C |
| All the countless pacing ages | D |
| In the country whence they come | E |
| Children only are the sages | F |
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| Hither every hour and year | G |
| Children come to cure our oldness | F |
| Oft alas to gather sear | G |
| Unbelief and earthy boldness | F |
| - | |
| Men they grow and women cold | H |
| Selfish passionate and plaining | I |
| Ever faster they grow old | H |
| On the world ah eld is gaining | I |
| - | |
| Child whose childhood ne'er departs | F |
| Jesus with the perfect father | B |
| Drive the age from parents' hearts | F |
| To thy heart the children gather | B |
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| Send thy birth into our souls | F |
| With its grand and tender story | J |
| Hark the gracious thunder rolls | F |
| News to men to God old glory | J |
George Macdonald
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