Flower Of Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLMMNN OMOMP| LEST Heaven be thronged with grey beards hoary | A |
| God who made boys for His delight | B |
| Stoops in a day of grief and glory | A |
| And calls them in in from the night | B |
| When they come trooping from the war | C |
| Our skies have many a new gold star | D |
| - | |
| Heaven's thronged with gay and careless faces | E |
| New waked from dreams of dreadful things | F |
| They walk in green and pleasant places | E |
| And by the crystal water springs | F |
| Who dreamt of dying and the slain | G |
| And the fierce thirst and the strong pain | G |
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| Dear boys They shall be young for ever | H |
| The Son of God was once a boy | I |
| They run and leap by a clear river | H |
| And of their youth they have great joy | I |
| God who made boys so clean and good | J |
| Smiles with the eyes of fatherhood | J |
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| Now Heaven is by the young invaded | K |
| Their laughter's in the House of God | L |
| Stainless and simple as He made it | M |
| God keeps the heart o' the boy unflawed | M |
| The old wise Saints look on and smile | N |
| They are so young and without guile | N |
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| Oh if the sonless mothers weeping | O |
| And widowed girls could look inside | M |
| The glory that hath them in keeping | O |
| Who went to the Great War and died | M |
| They would rise and put their mourning off | P |
| And say 'Thank God he has enough ' | - |
Katharine Tynan
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