Lines Written For A Golden Wedding, 1883 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FBFB GHIH JKKK KHLH KCMC BNON FBFB| Just fifty years ago to night | A |
| When earth was mantled deep with snow | B |
| The stars beheld with tender light | A |
| The fairest scene this world can show | B |
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| Two graceful forms stood side by side | C |
| Two trembling hands were clasped as one | D |
| Two hearts exchanged perpetual faith | E |
| And love's sweet poem was begun | D |
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| For suns may rise and suns may set | F |
| And tides may ebb and tides may flow | B |
| Love is man's greatest blessing yet | F |
| And honest wedlock makes it so | B |
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| Father and Mother sweetest words | G |
| That human lips can ever frame | H |
| We gather here as children now | I |
| To find your loving hearts the same | H |
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| Unchanged unchangeable by time | J |
| Your love is boundless as the sea | K |
| The same as when our childish griefs | K |
| Were hushed beside our mother's knee | K |
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| Years may have given us separate homes | K |
| Friends children happiness and fame | H |
| But oh to night our greatest wealth | L |
| Is that we call you still by name | H |
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| God bless you both for fifty years | K |
| You've journeyed onward side by side | C |
| And still for years to come God grant | M |
| Your paths may nevermore divide | C |
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| But just as sunset's golden glow | B |
| Makes Alpine snows divinely fair | N |
| So may the setting sun of life | O |
| Rest lightly on your silvered hair | N |
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| Yes suns may rise and suns may set | F |
| And tides may ebb and tides may flow | B |
| We are your loving children yet | F |
| And time will ever prove us so | B |
John L. Stoddard
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