Reflections On Reading The Life Of The Late Henry Kirke White, By William Holloway, Author Of The &# Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH IIJKKJ LLIMMI NNOIIO OOIOOI I| Darling of science and the muse | A |
| How shall a son of song refuse | A |
| To shed a tear for thee | B |
| To us so soon for ever lost | C |
| What hopes what prospects have been cross'd | C |
| By Heaven's supreme decree | B |
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| How could a parent love beguiled | D |
| In life's fair prime resign a child | D |
| So duteous good and kind | E |
| The warblers of the soothing strain | F |
| Must string the elegiac lyre in vain | F |
| To soothe the wounded mind | E |
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| Yet Fancy hovering round the tomb | G |
| Half envies while she mourns thy doom | G |
| Dear poet saint and sage | H |
| Who into one short span at best | I |
| The wisdom of an age compress'd | I |
| A patriarch's lengthen'd age | H |
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| To him a genius sanctified | I |
| And purged from literary pride | I |
| A sacred boon was given | J |
| Chaste as the psalmist's harp his lyre | K |
| Celestial raptures could inspire | K |
| And lift the soul to Heaven | J |
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| 'Twas not the laurel earth bestows | L |
| 'Twas not the praise from man that flows | L |
| With classic toil he sought | I |
| He sought the crown that martyrs wear | M |
| When rescued from a world of care | M |
| Their spirit too he caught | I |
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| Here come ye thoughtless vain and gay | N |
| Who idly range in Folly's way | N |
| And learn the worth of time | O |
| Learn ye whose days have run to waste | I |
| How to redeem this pearl at last | I |
| Atoning for your crime | O |
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| This flower that droop'd in one cold clime | O |
| Transplanted from the soil of time | O |
| To immortality | I |
| In full perfection there shall bloom | O |
| And those who now lament his doom | O |
| Must bow to God's decree | I |
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| London th Feb | I |
Henry Kirk White
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