Henry Kendall

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Passing Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDD ECECEDEDD FGFGHDHDD FIFIJDJDD HKHKLDMDD HNHNHDHDD

THE SPIRIT of beautiful facesA
The light on the forehead of LoveB
And the spell of past visited placesA
And the songs and the sweetness thereofB
These touched by a hand that is hoaryC
These vext with a tune of decayD
Are spoiled of their glow and their gloryC
And the burden is Passing awayD
Passing awayD
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Old years and their changes come troopingE
At nightfall to you and to meC
When Autumn sits faded and droopingE
By the sorrowful waves of the seaC
Faint phantoms that float in the gloamingE
Return with the whispers that sayD
The end which is quiet is comingE
Ye are weary and passing awayD
Passing awayD
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It is hard to awake and discoverF
The swiftness that waits upon TimeG
But youth and its beauty are overF
And Love has a sigh in its rhymeG
The Life that looks back and remembersH
Is troubled and tired and grayD
And sick of the sullen DecembersH
Whose burden is Passing awayD
Passing awayD
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We have wandered and wandered togetherF
And our joys have been many and deepI
But seasons of alien weatherF
Have ended in longings for sleepI
Pale purpose and perishing passionJ
With never a farewell to sayD
Die down into sobs of suppressionJ
The burden is Passing awayD
Passing awayD
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We loved the soft tangle of tressesH
The lips that were fain and afraidK
And the silence of far wildernessesH
With their dower of splendour and shadeK
For faces of sweetness we waitedL
And days of delight and delayD
Ere Time and its voices were matedM
To a voice that sighs Passing awayD
Passing awayD
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O years interwoven with storiesH
Of strong aspirations and highN
How fleet and how false were the gloriesH
That lived in your limited skyN
Here sitting by ruinous altarsH
Of Promise what word shall we sayD
To the speech that the rainy wind faltersH
Whose burden is Passing awayD
Passing awayD

Henry Kendall



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