Lydia Howard Sigourney

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In Memoriam. - Colonel H. L. Miller, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKLMNO PQRSTDUDVWXY ZA2B2DC2D2E2F2G2H2I2 J2K2CL2M2C

Died at Hartford December thA
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Sorrow and Joy collude One mansion hearsB
The children shouting o'er their Christmas TreeC
While in the next resound the widow's wailD
And weeping of the fatherless So walkE
Sickness and health One rounds the cheek at mornF
The other with a ghost like movement glidesG
Unto the nightly couch and lo the wheelsH
Of life drive heavily and all its springsI
Revolving in mysterious mechanismJ
Are troubledK
And how slight the instrumentL
That sometimes sends the strong man to his tombM
Revealing that the glory of his primeN
Is as the flower of grassO
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Of this we thoughtP
When looking on the face that lay so calmQ
And comely in its narrow coffin bedR
Remembering how the months of pain that sankS
His manly vigor to an infant's sighT
Were met unmurmuringlyD
Dense was the throngU
That gather'd to his obsequies and wellD
The Pastor's prayer of faith essayed to girdV
The smitten hearts that whelm'd in sorrow mourn'dW
Husband and sire whose ever watchful loveX
Guarded their happinessY
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Slowly moved onZ
The long procession led by martial menA2
Who deeply in their patriot minds deploredB2
Their fallen compeer and bade music layD
With plaintive voice her chaplet down besideC2
His open graveD2
Then the first setting sunE2
Of our New Year cast off his wintry frownF2
And seemed to write in clear long lines of goldG2
Upon the whiten'd earth the glorious wordsH2
So shall the dead arise at the last trumpI2
Sown here in weakness to be raised in powerJ2
Sown in corruption to put on the robesK2
Of immortalityC
Praise be to HimL2
Who gives through Christ our Lord to dying fleshM2
Such victoryC

Lydia Howard Sigourney



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