The Golden Wedding Of Longwood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CD EE FF GH II JJ KK LL MM NN OO PP QQ RR SS OO TT UU VV| With fifty years between you and your well kept wedding vow | A |
| The Golden Age old friends of mine is not a fable now | A |
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| And sweet as has life's vintage been through all your pleasant past | B |
| Still as at Cana's marriage feast the best wine is the last | B |
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| Again before me with your names fair Chester's landscape comes | C |
| Its meadows woods and ample barns and quaint stone builded homes | D |
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| The smooth shorn vales the wheaten slopes the boscage green and soft | E |
| Of which their poet sings so well from towered Cedarcroft | E |
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| And lo from all the country side come neighbors kith and kin | F |
| From city hamlet farm house old the wedding guests come in | F |
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| And they who without scrip or purse mob hunted travel worn | G |
| In Freedom's age of martyrs came as victors now return | H |
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| Older and slower yet the same files in the long array | I |
| And hearts are light and eyes are glad though heads are badger gray | I |
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| The fire tried men of Thirty eight who saw with me the fall | J |
| Midst roaring flames and shouting mob of Pennsylvania Hall | J |
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| And they of Lancaster who turned the cheeks of tyrants pale | K |
| Singing of freedom through the grates of Moyamensing jail | K |
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| And haply with them all unseen old comrades gone before | L |
| Pass silently as shadows pass within your open door | L |
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| The eagle face of Lindley Coates brave Garrett's daring zeal | M |
| Christian grace of Pennock the steadfast heart of Neal | M |
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| Ah me beyond all power to name the worthies tried and true | N |
| Grave men fair women youth and maid pass by in hushed review | N |
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| Of varying faiths a common cause fused all their hearts in one | O |
| God give them now whate'er their names the peace of duty done | O |
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| How gladly would I tread again the old remembered places | P |
| Sit down beside your hearth once more and look in the dear old faces | P |
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| And thank you for the lessons your fifty years are teaching | Q |
| For honest lives that louder speak than half our noisy preaching | Q |
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| For your steady faith and courage in that dark and evil time | R |
| When the Golden Rule was treason and to feed the hungry crime | R |
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| For the poor slave's house of refuge when the hounds were on his track | S |
| And saint and sinner church and state joined hands to send him back | S |
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| Blessings upon you What you did for each sad suffering one | O |
| So homeless faint and naked unto our Lord was done | O |
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| Fair fall on Kennett's pleasant vales and Longwood's bowery ways | T |
| The mellow sunset of your lives friends of my early days | T |
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| May many more of quiet years be added to your sum | U |
| And late at last in tenderest love the beckoning angel come | U |
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| Dear hearts are here dear hearts are there alike below above | V |
| Our friends are now in either world and love is sure of love | V |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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