Christening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCDC EAEA FGFG HEHE IGIG AGAG JKJL MANA| To day I saw a little calm eyed child | A |
| Where soft lights rippled and the shadows tarried | A |
| Within a church's shelter arched and aisled | A |
| Peacefully wondering to the altar carried | A |
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| White robed and sweet in semblance of a flower | B |
| White as the daisies that adorned the chancel | C |
| Borne like a gift the young wife's natural dower | D |
| Offered to God as her most precious hansel | C |
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| Then ceased the music and the little one | E |
| Was silent with the multitude assembled | A |
| Hearkening and when of Father and of Son | E |
| He spoke the pastor's deep voice broke and trembled | A |
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| But she the child knew not the solemn words | F |
| And suddenly yielded to a troublous wailing | G |
| As helpless as the cry of frightened birds | F |
| Whose untried wings for flight are unavailing | G |
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| How much the same I thought with older folk | H |
| The blessing falls we call it tribulation | E |
| And fancy that we wear a sorrow's yoke | H |
| Even at the moment of our consecration | E |
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| Pure daisy child Whatever be the form | I |
| Of dream or doctrine or of unbelieving | G |
| A hand may touch our heads amid the storm | I |
| Of grief and doubt to bless beyond bereaving | G |
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| A voice may sound in measured holy rite | A |
| Of speech we know not tho' its earnest meaning | G |
| Be clear as dew and sure as starry light | A |
| Gathered from some far off celestial gleaning | G |
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| Wise is the ancient sacrament that blends | J |
| This weakling cry of children in our churches | K |
| With strength of prayer or anthem that ascends | J |
| To Him who hearts of men and children searches | L |
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| Since we are like the babe who soothed again | M |
| Within her mother's cradling arm lay nested | A |
| Bright as a new bud now refreshed by rain | N |
| And on her hair it seemed heaven's radiance rested | A |
George Parsons Lathrop
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