In Memoriam. - Mr. Normand Burr, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD EFGH CIJH KLHMHNO PQRSTO| Editor of the Christian Secretary for more than twenty years died at Hartford December th aged | A |
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| We knew him as a man of sterling worth | B |
| Whose good example is a legacy | C |
| Better than gold for those he leaves behind | D |
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| His inborn piety flowed forth in streams | E |
| Of social kindness and domestic love | F |
| Cheering with filial warmth the parents' heart | G |
| And making his own home a pleasant place | H |
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| His was that self reliant industry | C |
| Smiling at hardship which develops well | I |
| The energies of manhood and lends strength | J |
| To commonwealths | H |
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| By silent messenger | K |
| A weekly scroll he strove to spread abroad | L |
| The stores of knowledge and increase the fruits | H |
| Of righteousness Hence is his loss bemoan'd | M |
| By many who had never seen his face | H |
| Here in the flesh but thro' the links of thought | N |
| Held intimate communion | O |
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| The true life | P |
| Of virtue is not lost to men below | Q |
| Though smitten by the frost of death it fall | R |
| Its quickening memory survives to gird | S |
| On in the heavenward race and gently guide | T |
| Where the high plaudit of the Judge is won | O |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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