Gather The Wayside Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDEFGFG HIHIHJHJ DKDKLMLM NONOPQPQ| 'Tis well to have a goal in mind | A |
| A life aim high and true | B |
| Clear as the day and well defined | A |
| And ever kept in view | B |
| But God has strewn along the way | C |
| Bright flowers of every hue | B |
| Gather the brightest while you may | C |
| For they were meant for you | B |
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| Heaven's joy transcends the joys of earth | D |
| But if earth's joys be pure | E |
| They must have had a heavenly birth | D |
| And bless while they endure | E |
| So pluck the flower before it fades | F |
| Drink from the purling stream | G |
| Nor look for sorrow's darkening shades | F |
| But for the morning gleam | G |
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| Life's burdens lose full half their weight | H |
| If gay our spirits be | I |
| The rest beyond we antedate | H |
| And serve though ever free | I |
| Our lamentations all will end | H |
| Exchanged for smile and song | J |
| And men will mark our upward trend | H |
| By joy points all along | J |
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| The poet wrote no room for mirth | D |
| Much less for sigh and frown | K |
| A vale of tears may be this earth | D |
| 'Tis so to every clown | K |
| The desert blossoms as the rose | L |
| And joy flows everywhere | M |
| The star of hope in brightness glows | L |
| No room for dark despair | M |
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| Before we reach God's heaven above | N |
| Enjoy His heaven below | O |
| And by the ministries of love | N |
| A Christlike nature show | O |
| For he who lives a selfish life | P |
| Must lose the joy of this | Q |
| For highest good vain is our strife | P |
| If man share not our bliss | Q |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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