Lines On Receiving A Bunch Of Wild Hyacinths By Post. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAA CDCDEE FGFGHH IJKJAA LMLMAA NGNGAA| Sweet drooping azure tinted bells | A |
| How dear you are | B |
| Bringing the scent of shady dells | A |
| To me from far | B |
| Telling of spring and gladsome sunny hours | A |
| Nature's bright jewels heart refreshing flowers | A |
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| Oh for a stroll when opening day | C |
| Silvers the dew | D |
| Kissing the buds whilst zephyrs play | C |
| As though they knew | D |
| Their gentle breath was needed just to shake | E |
| Your slumbering beauties and to bid you wake | E |
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| Far from the moilding town and trade | F |
| How sweet to spend | G |
| An hour amid the misty glade | F |
| And find a friend | G |
| In every tiny blossom and to lie | H |
| And dream of Him whose love can never die | H |
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| Ye are Gael's messengers sent here | I |
| To make us glad | J |
| Mute and yet eloquent to cheer | K |
| The heart that's sad | J |
| To turn our thoughts from sordid earthly gains | A |
| To that bright home where peace for ever reigns | A |
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| How dare we murmur when around | L |
| On every side | M |
| Such proofs of His great love abound | L |
| O'er the world wide | M |
| Faith cannot die within these hearts of ours | A |
| If we but learn the lessons of the flowers | A |
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| Thanks to the one whose kindly heart | N |
| Was moved to send | G |
| This gift when we were far apart | N |
| To cheer a friend | G |
| Sweet meditation now my mind employs | A |
| A pleasure pure and one which never cloys | A |
John Hartley
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