In Memoriam. - Miss Laura Kingsbury, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGB HIHI FB| Died at Hartford July | A |
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| Faithful and true in duty's sacred sphere | B |
| How like the summer lightning hath she fled | C |
| One moment bending o'er the letter'd page | D |
| The next reposing with the silent dead | C |
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| No more by shaded lamp or garden fair | E |
| Yet hath she left a living transcript here | F |
| Yon helpless orphans will remember her | G |
| And the young invalid she skilled to cheer | B |
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| And he who trusted in her from his birth | H |
| As to a Mother's love and friends who saw | I |
| Her goodness seeking no applause from earth | H |
| But ever steadfast to its heavenly law | I |
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| For she like her of old with listening ear | F |
| Sate at the Saviour's feet and won His plaudit dear | B |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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