The Golden Wedding Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEDFGHG IJKJLMNO PQIQRESE ETUTVWQW XYWYIZNZ ONENA2IB2I C2WD2WE2F2G2H2| Inscribed to OUR FATHER AND MOTHER and read on that Anniversary | A |
| FEBRUARY TH | B |
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| A half a century of time | C |
| The mingled pain and bliss | D |
| That make the history of life | E |
| Between that day and this | D |
| Two lives that in that morning light | F |
| Together were made one | G |
| Now standing where the shadows fall | H |
| Athwart the setting sun | G |
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| How long it seems the devious way | I |
| And full of toil and pain | J |
| Yet love and peace kept house with them | K |
| And love and peace remain | J |
| Though youth and strength and youthful friends | L |
| Were left upon the road | M |
| Long since an honest man is still | N |
| The noblest work of God | O |
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| No famous deeds no acts achieved | P |
| In battle or in state | Q |
| Make memorable this festal day | I |
| The day we celebrate | Q |
| Divided from the common lot | R |
| By neither tame nor pelf | E |
| Our hearts revere the man who loves | S |
| His neighbour as himself | E |
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| The fragrance of the Christian's life | E |
| Though humble and unknown | T |
| Is a more precious heritage | U |
| Than heirship to a throne | T |
| That lowly roof what memories | V |
| Of blessings cluster there | W |
| Around the hearthstone consecrate | Q |
| By fifty years of prayer | W |
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| The shaded lamp the cheerful fire | X |
| Our Mother's patient look | Y |
| The firelight on her silver hair | W |
| And on the Holy Book | Y |
| Where e'er our erring feet may stray | I |
| The welcome waits the same | Z |
| That light that look will follow still | N |
| And soften and reclaim | Z |
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| Type of the Fatherhood of God | O |
| Whose love has kept us still | N |
| In all the changeful scenes of life | E |
| Secure from every ill | N |
| And brought our long divided band | A2 |
| Not one of us astray | I |
| Around our Father's board to keep | B2 |
| This Golden Wedding Day | I |
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| Oh ye beloved and revered | C2 |
| Our hearts make thankful prayer | W |
| That still around our household hearth | D2 |
| There is no vacant chair | W |
| God grant that we may be of those | E2 |
| Who sing the heavenly psalm | F2 |
| And sit together at the feast | G2 |
| The marriage of the Lamb | H2 |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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