From Fleeting Pleasures Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBC DDDC EEFC GGGC HHHC IIIC| A REQUIEM FOR ONE ALIVE | A |
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| From fleeting pleasures and abiding cares | B |
| From sin's seductions and from Satan's snares | B |
| From woes and wrath to penitence and prayers | B |
| Veni in pace | C |
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| Sweet absolution thy sad spirit heal | D |
| To godly cares that end in endless weal | D |
| To joys man cannot think or speak or feel | D |
| Vade in pace | C |
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| From this world's ways and being led by them | E |
| From floods of evil thy youth could not stem | E |
| From tents of Kedar to Jerusalem | F |
| Veni in pace | C |
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| Blest be thy worldly loss to thy soul's gain | G |
| Blest be the blow that freed thee from thy chain | G |
| Blest be the tears that wash thy spirit's stain | G |
| Vade in pace | C |
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| Oh dead and yet alive Oh lost and found | H |
| Salvation's walls now compass thee around | H |
| Thy weary feet are set on holy ground | H |
| Veni in pace | C |
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| Death gently garner thee with all the blest | I |
| In heavenly habitations be thou guest | I |
| To light perpetual and eternal rest | I |
| Vade in pace | C |
Juliana Horatia Ewing
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