Dust To Dust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBAA AACCCAA AABBBDA AAEEEAA ADFFFAA AAGGGAA AAHIJAADust to dust | A |
Fall and perish love and lust | A |
Life is one brief autumn day | B |
Sin and sorrow haunt the way | B |
To the narrow house of clay | B |
Clutching at the good and just | A |
Dust to dust | A |
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Dust to dust | A |
Still we strive and toil and trust | A |
From the cradle to the grave | C |
Vainly crying Jesus save | C |
Fall the coward and the brave | C |
Fall the felon and the just | A |
Dust to dust | A |
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Dust to dust | A |
Hark I hear the wintry gust | A |
Yet the roses bloom to day | B |
Blushing to the kiss of May | B |
While the north winds sigh and say | B |
Lo we bring the cruel frost | D |
Dust to dust | A |
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Dust to dust | A |
Yet we live and love and trust | A |
Lifting burning brow and eye | E |
To the mountain peaks on high | E |
From the peaks the ages cry | E |
Strewing ashes rime and rust | A |
Dust to dust | A |
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Dust to dust | A |
What is gained when all is lost | D |
Gaily for a day we tread | F |
Proudly with averted head | F |
O'er the ashes of the dead | F |
Blind with pride and mad with lust | A |
Dust to dust | A |
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Hope and trust | A |
All life springs from out the dust | A |
Ah we measure God by man | G |
Looking forward but a span | G |
On His wondrous boundless plan | G |
All His ways are wise and just | A |
Hope and trust | A |
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Hope and trust | A |
Hope will blossom from the dust | A |
Love is queen God's throne is hers | H |
His great heart with loving force | I |
Throbs throughout the universe | J |
We are His and He is just | A |
Hope and trust | A |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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