In Memoriam. - Mr. David F. Robinson, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEDFGHIJK LMNOPQRSTUVWXYZOA2B2 WMC2D2T| Died at Hartford January th aged | A |
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| We did not think it would be so | B |
| We kept | C |
| The hope lamp trimm'd and burning Day by day | D |
| There came reports to cheer us and we thought | E |
| God in his goodness would not take away | D |
| So soon another of that wasting band | F |
| Of worthies whose example in our midst | G |
| Precious and prized we knew not how to spare | H |
| These were our thoughts and prayers | I |
| But He who reigns | J |
| Above the clouds had different purposes | K |
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| On the low pillow where so late he mourn'd | L |
| His gifted first born in the prime of days | M |
| Circled by all that makes life beautiful | N |
| And full of joy his honored head is laid | O |
| The Sire and Son ne'er to be sunder'd more | P |
| Yet his unblemish'd memory still survives | Q |
| And walks among us the upright intent | R |
| Firmness that conquer'd obstacles the zeal | S |
| For public good the warmth of charity | T |
| And piety that gave unwithering root | U |
| To every virtue | V |
| Of the pleasant home | W |
| Where his most fond affections shed their balm | X |
| And found response now in its deep eclipse | Y |
| And desolate it is not ours to speak | Z |
| Nor by a powerless sympathy invade | O |
| The sacredness of grief | A2 |
| 'Twere fitter far | B2 |
| For faith to contemplate that glorious Home | W |
| Which knows no change and lose itself in praise | M |
| Of Him who to His faithful followers gives | C2 |
| Such blessed passport o'er the flood of Death | D2 |
| That where He is there shall His servant be | T |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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