Joseph Horatio Chant

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What Lasts? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGG CCHI CCJJ KKEE LLMMNNLL

The words we speak on the empty airA
Are never lost but recorded thereA
The process we may not comprehendB
Nor how the words with the air may blendB
But science shows what results may beC
Accept the fact is enough for meC
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The waves of sound may have died awayD
As ripples faint on a sheltered bayD
But though now faint will be heard againE
By God ourselves and the sons of menE
As sound e'en now may be multipliedF
The faintest moan like the roaring tideF
The housefly's tread with its tiny feetG
Like tramp of horse on the stone paved streetG
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So though now faint will those voices beC
When Christ shall come in His majestyC
Our quicken'd sense will the echo hearH
Like blast of horn to the timid deerI
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In pleasant tones will the echoes beC
Of words of love and of happy gleeC
Which we address to the friends we loveJ
Or offer up to our Lord aboveJ
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But unlike those all the echoes heardK
Of angry tones and each sword like wordK
As we here mete to our fellow menE
The Judge shall mete in full measure thenE
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The thoughts we think may be lasting tooL
Though not inscribed on the azure blueL
On the tissued walls of the soul's great domeM
May be found those thoughts ne'er more to roamM
And like our thoughts may we not becomeN
The thought we think be ourselves the sumN
May thoughts of God on my heart be gravedL
And I be known as a sinner savedL

Joseph Horatio Chant



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