Autograph Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHIJKJKJLJL| 'Prove what Life can give of gladness | A |
| Seek for aught that merits trust | B |
| All thy mirth will turn to sadness | A |
| All thy bliss to cold disgust | B |
| Soon revolving years will banish | C |
| Fairest hopes in darkness laid | D |
| Earthly treasures soon must vanish | C |
| Strength and beauty fail and fade ' | E |
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| Thus life weary spake the preacher | F |
| Closing his misguided quest | G |
| Heed him not the half truth teacher | F |
| Deaf to Love's supreme behest | G |
| But with Faith thy life adorning | H |
| Serve thy race as Heaven hath plann'd | I |
| Sow thy seed at dawn of morning | H |
| Nor at evening stay thy hand | I |
| Never shall this path seem weary | J |
| Never hath such purpose fail'd | K |
| Nor the retrospect proved dreary | J |
| When Life's furthest heights are scaled | K |
| And in bright realms still above thee | J |
| On some ever verdant shore | L |
| Those thou servest and who love thee | J |
| Shall rejoin to part no more | L |
Joseph Furphy
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