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To The Memory Of H. K. White, By The Rev. W. B. Collyer, A. M. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE DFDG HIHI DJDJ DEDE DDDD DKDC DDDD DEDE L

O Lost too soon accept the tearA
A stranger to thy memory paysB
Dear to the muse to science dearC
In the young morning of thy daysB
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All the wild notes that pity lovedD
Awoke responsive still to theeE
While o'er the lyre thy fingers rovedD
In softest sweetest harmonyE
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The chords that in the human heartD
Compassion touches as her ownF
Bore in thy symphonies a partD
With them in perfect unisonG
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Amidst accumulated woesH
That premature afflictions bringI
Submission's sacred hymn aroseH
Warbled from every mournful stringI
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When o'er thy dawn the darkness spreadD
And deeper every moment grewJ
When rudely round thy youthful headD
The chilling blasts of sickness blewJ
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Religion heard no 'plainings loudD
The sigh in secret stole from theeE
And pity from the dropping cloudD
Shed tears of holy sympathyE
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Cold is that heart in which were metD
More virtues than could ever dieD
The morning star of hope is setD
The sun adorns another skyD
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O partial grief to mourn the dayD
So suddenly o'erclouded hereK
To rise with unextinguish'd rayD
To shine in a superior sphereC
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Oft Genius early quits this sodD
Impatient of a robe of clayD
Spreads the light pinion spurns the clodD
And smiles and soars and steals awayD
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But more than genius urged thy flightD
And mark'd the way dear youth for theeE
Henry sprang up to worlds of lightD
On wings of immortalityE
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Blackheath Hill th JuneL

Henry Kirk White



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