Daniel Wheeler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDEFCGGHIFHJKLMM L NOOPQRSSPTUTUVVWWXXY CYBZZX NA2TA2A2A2 CTCTKB2C2DJD2DE2A2F2 G2F2GGH2WWYA2YC2TTI2 I2C2LGGC2L YCJ2J2YCC2K2C2L2L2K2 M2C2N2M2C2O2DDLLP2P2 CC PC2A2C2A2TTLLQ2R2BA2 A2BS2CS2CT2T2U2V2C2W 2W2C2O Dearly loved | A |
And worthy of our love No more | B |
Thy aged form shall rise before | B |
The bushed and waiting worshiper | C |
In meek obedience utterance giving | D |
To words of truth so fresh and living | D |
That even to the inward sense | E |
They bore unquestioned evidence | F |
Of an anointed Messenger | C |
Or bowing down thy silver hair | G |
In reverent awfulness of prayer | G |
The world its time and sense shut out | H |
The brightness of Faith's holy trance | I |
Gathered upon thy countenance | F |
As if each lingering cloud of doubt | H |
The cold dark shadows resting here | J |
In Time's unluminous atmosphere | K |
Were lifted by an angel's hand | L |
And through them on thy spiritual eye | M |
Shone down the blessedness on high | M |
The glory of the Better Land | L |
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The oak has fallen | N |
While meet for no good work the vine | O |
May yet its worthless branches twine | O |
Who knoweth not that with thee fell | P |
A great man in our Israel | Q |
Fallen while thy loins were girded still | R |
Thy feet with Zion's dews still wet | S |
And in thy hand retaining yet | S |
The pilgrim's staff and scallop shell | P |
Unharmed and safe where wild and free | T |
Across the Neva's cold morass | U |
The breezes from the Frozen Sea | T |
With winter's arrowy keenness pass | U |
Or where the unwarning tropic gale | V |
Smote to the waves thy tattered sail | V |
Or where the noon hour's fervid heat | W |
Against Tahiti's mountains beat | W |
The same mysterious Hand which gave | X |
Deliverance upon land and wave | X |
Tempered for thee the blasts which blew | Y |
Ladaga's frozen surface o'er | C |
And blessed for thee the baleful dew | Y |
Of evening upon Eimeo's shore | B |
Beneath this sunny heaven of ours | Z |
Midst our soft airs and opening flowers | Z |
Hath given thee a grave | X |
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His will be done | N |
Who seeth not as man whose way | A2 |
Is not as ours 'T is well with thee | T |
Nor anxious doubt nor dark dismay | A2 |
Disquieted thy closing day | A2 |
But evermore thy soul could say | A2 |
'My Father careth still for me ' | - |
Called from thy hearth and home from her | C |
The last bud on thy household tree | T |
The last dear one to minister | C |
In duty and in love to thee | T |
From all which nature holdeth dear | K |
Feeble with years and worn with pain | B2 |
To seek our distant land again | C2 |
Bound in the spirit yet unknowing | D |
The things which should befall thee here | J |
Whether for labor or for death | D2 |
In childlike trust serenely going | D |
To that last trial of thy faith | E2 |
Oh far away | A2 |
Where never shines our Northern star | F2 |
On that dark waste which Balboa saw | G2 |
From Darien's mountains stretching far | F2 |
So strange heaven broad and lone that there | G |
With forehead to its damp wind bare | G |
He bent his mailed knee in awe | H2 |
In many an isle whose coral feet | W |
The surges of that ocean beat | W |
In thy palm shadows Oahu | Y |
And Honolulu's silver bay | A2 |
Amidst Owyhee's hills of blue | Y |
And taro plains of Tooboonai | C2 |
Are gentle hearts which long shall be | T |
Sad as our own at thought of thee | T |
Worn sowers of Truth's holy seed | I2 |
Whose souls in weariness and need | I2 |
Were strengthened and refreshed by thine | C2 |
For blessed by our Father's hand | L |
Was thy deep love and tender care | G |
Thy ministry and fervent prayer | G |
Grateful as Eshcol's clustered vine | C2 |
To Israel in a weary land | L |
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And they who drew | Y |
By thousands round thee in the hour | C |
Of prayerful waiting hushed and deep | J2 |
That He who bade the islands keep | J2 |
Silence before Him might renew | Y |
Their strength with His unslumbering power | C |
They too shall mourn that thou art gone | C2 |
That nevermore thy aged lip | K2 |
Shall soothe the weak the erring warn | C2 |
Of those who first rejoicing heard | L2 |
Through thee the Gospel's glorious word | L2 |
Seals of thy true apostleship | K2 |
And if the brightest diadem | M2 |
Whose gems of glory purely burn | C2 |
Around the ransomed ones in bliss | N2 |
Be evermore reserved for them | M2 |
Who here through toil and sorrow turn | C2 |
Many to righteousness | O2 |
May we not think of thee as wearing | D |
That star like crown of light and bearing | D |
Amidst Heaven's white and blissful band | L |
Th' unfading palm branch in thy hand | L |
And joining with a seraph's tongue | P2 |
In that new song the elders sung | P2 |
Ascribing to its blessed Giver | C |
Thanksgiving love and praise forever | C |
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Farewell | P |
And though the ways of Zion mourn | C2 |
When her strong ones are called away | A2 |
Who like thyself have calmly borne | C2 |
The heat and burden of the day | A2 |
Yet He who slumbereth not nor sleepeth | T |
His ancient watch around us keepeth | T |
Still sent from His creating hand | L |
New witnesses for Truth shall stand | L |
New instruments to sound abroad | Q2 |
The Gospel of a risen Lord | R2 |
To gather to the fold once more | B |
The desolate and gone astray | A2 |
The scattered of a cloudy day | A2 |
And Zion's broken walls restore | B |
And through the travail and the toil | S2 |
Of true obedience minister | C |
Beauty for ashes and the oil | S2 |
Of joy for mourning unto her | C |
So shall her holy bounds increase | T2 |
With walls of praise and gates of peace | T2 |
So shall the Vine which martyr tears | U2 |
And blood sustained in other years | V2 |
With fresher life be clothed upon | C2 |
And to the world in beauty show | W2 |
Like the rose plant of Jericho | W2 |
And glorious as Lebanon | C2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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