Old Hymn-tunes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDEDD FGFGG HIJII KLKLL MNMNN| Dear old time tunes of prayer and praise | A |
| Heard first beside my mother's knee | B |
| Your music on my spirit lays | A |
| A spell from which I should be free | B |
| If lapse of time gave liberty | B |
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| I listen and the crowded years | C |
| Fade dream like from my life and lo | D |
| I find my eyelids wet with tears | E |
| So much I loved so well I know | D |
| Those plaintive airs of long ago | D |
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| They tell me of my vanished youth | F |
| Of faith in what so flawless seemed | G |
| Before the painful quest of truth | F |
| Had proved how much I then esteemed | G |
| Was other than I fondly dreamed | G |
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| They make my childhood live again | H |
| And life's fair dawn grows once more bright | I |
| While listening to the sweet refrain | J |
| Sung in the Sabbath's waning light | I |
| Glory to Thee my God this night | I |
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| My mother's voice so pure and strong | K |
| My father's flute of silvery tone | L |
| The little household's strength of song | K |
| The childish treble of my own | L |
| I hear them once more but alone | L |
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| Sweet obligato to some hymn | M |
| Whose words those vanished tones recall | N |
| Float o'er me when earth's scenes grow dim | M |
| And life's last lingering echoes fall | N |
| Till silence settles over all | N |
John L. Stoddard
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