Lines Written In A Young Lady's Album Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJK| 'Tis not in youth when life is new when but to live is sweet | A |
| When Pleasure strews her starlike flow'rs beneath our careless feet | A |
| When Hope that has not been deferred first waves its golden wings | B |
| And crowds the distant future with a thousand lovely things | B |
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| When if a transient grief o'ershades the spirit for a while | C |
| The momentary tear that falls is followed by a smile | C |
| Or if a pensive mood at times across the bosom steals | D |
| It scarcely sighs so gentle is the pensiveness it feels | D |
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| It is not then the restless soul will seek for one with whom | E |
| To share whatever lot it bears its gladness or its gloom | E |
| Some trusting tried and gentle heart some true and faithful breast | F |
| Whereon its pinions it may fold and claim a place of rest | F |
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| But oh when comes the icy chill that freezes o'er the heart | G |
| When one by one the joys we shared the hopes we held depart | G |
| When friends like autumn's withered leaves have fallen by our side | H |
| And life so pleasant once becomes a desert wild and wide | H |
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| As for her olive branch the dove swept o'er the sullen wave | I |
| That rolled above the olden world its death robe and its grave | I |
| So will the spirit search the earth for some kind gentle one | J |
| With it to share her destiny and make it all her own | K |
George W. Sands
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