To F. W. N. A Birthday Offering Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JDKDLL MNMOPP QRQRSS TITITT NTNTTT TUTUVV WGXGYY ZTZTDD TA2TA2B2B2 TNTNTT| Dear Frank this morn has usher'd in | A |
| The manhood of thy days | B |
| A boy no more thou must begin | A |
| To choose thy future ways | B |
| To brace thy arm and nerve thy heart | C |
| For maintenance of a noble part | C |
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| And thou a voucher fair hast given | D |
| Of what thou wilt achieve | E |
| Ere age has dimm'd thy sun lit heaven | D |
| In weary life's chill eve | E |
| Should Sovereign Wisdom in its grace | F |
| Vouchsafe to thee so long a race | F |
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| My brother we are link'd with chain | G |
| That time shall ne'er destroy | H |
| Together we have been in pain | G |
| Together now in joy | H |
| For duly I to share may claim | I |
| The present brightness of thy name | I |
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| My brother 'tis no recent tie | J |
| Which binds our fates in one | D |
| E'en from our tender infancy | K |
| The twisted thread was spun | D |
| Her deed who stored in her fond mind | L |
| Our forms by sacred love enshrined | L |
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| In her affection all had share | M |
| All six she loved them all | N |
| Yet on her early chosen Pair | M |
| Did her full favour fall Note | O |
| And we became her dearest theme | P |
| Her waking thought her nightly dream | P |
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| Ah brother shall we e'er forget | Q |
| Her love her care her zeal | R |
| We cannot pay the countless debt | Q |
| But we must ever feel | R |
| For through her earnestness were shed | S |
| Prayer purchased blessings on our head | S |
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| Though in the end of days she stood | T |
| And pain and weakness came | I |
| Her force of thought was unsubdued | T |
| Her fire of love the same | I |
| And e'en when memory fail'd its part | T |
| We still kept lodgment in her heart | T |
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| And when her Maker from the thrall | N |
| Of flesh her spirit freed | T |
| No suffering companied the call | N |
| In mercy 'twas decreed | T |
| One moment here the next she trod | T |
| The viewless mansion of her God | T |
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| Now then at length she is at rest | T |
| And after many a woe | U |
| Rejoices in that Saviour blest | T |
| Who was her hope below | U |
| Kept till the day when He shall own | V |
| His saints before His Father's throne | V |
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| So it is left for us to prove | W |
| Her prayers were not in vain | G |
| And that God's grace according love | X |
| Has come as gentle rain | G |
| Which falling in the vernal hour | Y |
| Tints the young leaf perfumes the flower | Y |
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| Dear Frank we both are summon'd now | Z |
| As champions of the Lord | T |
| Enroll'd am I and shortly thou | Z |
| Must buckle on thy sword | T |
| A high employ nor lightly given | D |
| To serve as messengers of heaven | D |
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| Deep in my heart that gift I hide | T |
| I change it not away | A2 |
| For patriot warrior's hour of pride | T |
| Or statesman's tranquil sway | A2 |
| For poet's fire or pleader's skill | B2 |
| To pierce the soul and tame the will | B2 |
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| O may we follow undismay'd | T |
| Where'er our God shall call | N |
| And may His Spirit's present aid | T |
| Uphold us lest we fall | N |
| Till in the end of days we stand | T |
| As victors in a deathless land | T |
John Henry Newman
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