By The Fireside : Resignation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGGG GGGG HIHI HJHJ HDHD CBCB HGHG KLKL HGHG HMHM CNCN| There is no flock however watched and tended | A |
| But one dead lamb is there | B |
| There is no fireside howsoe'er defended | A |
| But has one vacant chair | B |
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| The air is full of farewells to the dying | C |
| And mournings for the dead | D |
| The heart of Rachel for her children crying | C |
| Will not be comforted | E |
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| Let us be patient These severe afflictions | F |
| Not from the ground arise | G |
| But oftentimes celestial benedictions | G |
| Assume this dark disguise | G |
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| We see but dimly through the mists and vapors | G |
| Amid these earthly damps | G |
| What seem to us but sad funereal tapers | G |
| May be heaven's distant lamps | G |
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| There is no Death What seems so is transition | H |
| This life of mortal breath | I |
| Is but a suburb of the life elysian | H |
| Whose portal we call Death | I |
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| She is not dead the child of our affection | H |
| But gone unto that school | J |
| Where she no longer needs our poor protection | H |
| And Christ himself doth rule | J |
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| In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion | H |
| By guardian angels led | D |
| Safe from temptation safe from sin's pollution | H |
| She lives whom we call dead | D |
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| Day after day we think what she is doing | C |
| In those bright realms of air | B |
| Year after year her tender steps pursuing | C |
| Behold her grown more fair | B |
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| Thus do we walk with her and keep unbroken | H |
| The bond which nature gives | G |
| Thinking that our remembrance though unspoken | H |
| May reach her where she lives | G |
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| Not as a child shall we again behold her | K |
| For when with raptures wild | L |
| In our embraces we again enfold her | K |
| She will not be a child | L |
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| But a fair maiden in her Father's mansion | H |
| Clothed with celestial grace | G |
| And beautiful with all the soul's expansion | H |
| Shall we behold her face | G |
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| And though at times impetuous with emotion | H |
| And anguish long suppressed | M |
| The swelling heart heaves moaning like the ocean | H |
| That cannot be at rest | M |
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| We will be patient and assuage the feeling | C |
| We may not wholly stay | N |
| By silence sanctifying not concealing | C |
| The grief that must have way | N |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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