Araluen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFABBGG HHIIJJKKLL DDMNOOAAPP| Take this rose and very gently place it on the tender deep | A |
| Mosses where our little darling Araluen lies asleep | A |
| Put the blossom close to baby kneel with me my love and pray | B |
| We must leave the bird we've buried say good bye to her to day | B |
| In the shadow of our trouble we must go to other lands | C |
| And the flowers we have fostered will be left to other hands | C |
| Other eyes will watch them growing other feet will softly tread | D |
| Where two hearts are nearly breaking where so many tears are shed | D |
| Bitter is the world we live in life and love are mixed with pain | E |
| We will never see these daisies never water them again | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp | A |
| Here the blue eyed Spring will linger here the shining month will stay | B |
| Like a friend by Araluen when we two are far away | B |
| But beyond the wild wide waters we will tread another shore | G |
| We will never watch this blossom never see it any more | G |
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| Girl whose hand at God's high altar in the dear dead year I pressed | H |
| Lean your stricken head upon me this is still your lover's breast | H |
| She who sleeps was first and sweetest none we have to take her place | I |
| Empty is the little cradle absent is the little face | I |
| Other children may be given but this rose beyond recall | J |
| But this garland of your girlhood will be dearest of them all | J |
| None will ever Araluen nestle where you used to be | K |
| In my heart of hearts you darling when the world was new to me | K |
| We were young when you were with us life and love were happy things | L |
| To your father and your mother ere the angels gave you wings | L |
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| You that sit and sob beside me you upon whose golden head | D |
| Many rains of many sorrows have from day to day been shed | D |
| Who because your love was noble faced with me the lot austere | M |
| Ever pressing with its hardship on the man of letters here | N |
| Let me feel that you are near me lay your hand within mine own | O |
| You are all I have to live for now that we are left alone | O |
| Three there were but one has vanished Sins of mine have made you weep | A |
| But forgive your baby's father now that baby is asleep | A |
| Let us go for night is falling leave the darling with her flowers | P |
| Other hands will come and tend them other friends in other hours | P |
Henry Kendall
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