Hattie Howard

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Receiving Sight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH EIEI JKJK LLLL MEME NENE EEEE

In hours of meditation fraughtA
With mem'ries of departed daysB
Comes oft a tender loving thoughtA
Of one who shared our youthful playsB
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In gayest sports and pleasures rifeC
Whose happy nature reveled soD
That on her ardent joyous lifeC
A shadow lay we did not knowD
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And bade her look one summer nightE
Up to the sky that seemed to holdF
In dying sunset splendor brightE
All hues of sapphire red and goldF
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How strange the spell that mystifiedG
Us all and hushed our wonted gleeH
As sadly her sweet voice repliedG
Why don't you know I cannot seeH
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Too true those eyes bereft of sightE
No blemish bare no drop sereneI
But nothing in this world of lightE
And beauty they had ever seenI
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A dozen years in gentle ruthJ
Their impress lent to brow and cheekK
When precious words of sacred truthJ
Led her the Saviour's face to seekK
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Responsive unto earnest prayersL
Commingling love and penitenceL
A blessing came not unawaresL
In new and strange experienceL
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And all was light as Faith's clear eyeM
A brighter world than ours divinedE
For never clouds obscured the skyM
That she could see while we were blindE
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Oh it must be an awful thingN
To be shut out from light of dayE
From summer's grace and bloom of springN
In gladness words cannot portrayE
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But haply into every heartE
May enter that Celestial LightE
That doth to life's dark ways impartE
A radiance hid from mortal sightE

Hattie Howard



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