The Children's Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI JKLKLMLM ENONPQRQ BSBSTUPU VDVDWJWJ| The infant lies in blessed ease | A |
| Upon his mother's breast | B |
| No storm no dark the baby sees | A |
| Invade his heaven of rest | B |
| He nothing knows of change or death | C |
| Her face his holy skies | D |
| The air he breathes his mother's breath | C |
| His stars his mother's eyes | D |
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| Yet half the soft winds wandering there | E |
| Are sighs that come of fears | F |
| The dew slow falling through that air | E |
| It is the dew of tears | G |
| And ah my child thy heavenly home | H |
| Hath storms as well as dew | I |
| Black clouds fill sometimes all its dome | H |
| And quench the starry blue | I |
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| My smile would win no smile again | J |
| If baby saw the things | K |
| That ache across his mother's brain | L |
| The while to him she sings | K |
| Thy faith in me is faith in vain | L |
| I am not what I seem | M |
| O dreary day O cruel pain | L |
| That wakes thee from thy dream | M |
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| Nay pity not his dreams so fair | E |
| Fear thou no waking grief | N |
| Oh safer he than though thou were | O |
| Good as his vague belief | N |
| There is a heaven that heaven above | P |
| Whereon he gazes now | Q |
| A truer love than in thy kiss | R |
| A better friend than thou | Q |
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| The Father's arms fold like a nest | B |
| Both thee and him about | S |
| His face looks down a heaven of rest | B |
| Where comes no dark no doubt | S |
| Its mists are clouds of stars that move | T |
| On on with progress rife | U |
| Its winds the goings of his love | P |
| Its dew the dew of life | U |
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| We for our children seek thy heart | V |
| For them we lift our eyes | D |
| Lord should their faith in us depart | V |
| Let faith in thee arise | D |
| When childhood's visions them forsake | W |
| To women grown and men | J |
| Back to thy heart their hearts oh take | W |
| And bid them dream again | J |
George Macdonald
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