Christmas Song Of The Old Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECC FGFGHH IJIJKK LMLMNO HHHHPP QEQERR| Well for youth to seek the strong | A |
| Beautiful and brave | B |
| We the old who walk along | A |
| Gently to the grave | B |
| Only pay our court to thee | C |
| Child of all Eternity | C |
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| We are old who once were young | D |
| And we grow more old | E |
| Songs we are that have been sung | D |
| Tales that have been told | E |
| Yellow leaves wind blown to thee | C |
| Childhood of Eternity | C |
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| If we come too sudden near | F |
| Lo Earth's infant cries | G |
| For our faces wan and drear | F |
| Have such withered eyes | G |
| Thou Heaven's child turn'st not away | H |
| From the wrinkled ones who pray | H |
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| Smile upon us with thy mouth | I |
| And thine eyes of grace | J |
| On our cold north breathe thy south | I |
| Thaw the frozen face | J |
| Childhood all from thee doth flow | K |
| Melt to song our age's snow | K |
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| Gray haired children come in crowds | L |
| Thee their Hope to greet | M |
| Is it swaddling clothes or shrouds | L |
| Hampering so our feet | M |
| Eldest child the shadows gloom | N |
| Take the aged children home | O |
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| We have had enough of play | H |
| And the wood grows drear | H |
| Many who at break of day | H |
| Companied us here | H |
| They have vanished out of sight | P |
| Gone and met the coming light | P |
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| Fair is this out world of thine | Q |
| But its nights are cold | E |
| And the sun that makes it fine | Q |
| Makes us soon so old | E |
| Long its shadows grow and dim | R |
| Father take us back with him | R |
George Macdonald
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