In Memoriam. - Mrs. Margaret Walbridge, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEED FGHHG HIJKI LMNNM OBPPB QRPPS| Died at Saratoga N Y June d aged | A |
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| WRITTEN ON HER BIRTH DAY | B |
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| This was her birth day here | C |
| When summer's latest flowers | D |
| Were kindling to their flush and prime | E |
| As if they felt how short the time | E |
| In these terrestrial bowers | D |
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| She hath a birth day now | F |
| No hastening night that knows | G |
| She hath a never ending year | H |
| Which feels no blight of autumn sere | H |
| Nor chill of wintry snows | G |
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| She hath no pain or fear | H |
| But by her Saviour's side | I |
| Expansion finds for every power | J |
| And knowledge her angelic dower | K |
| An ever flowing tide | I |
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| They sorrow who were called | L |
| From her sweet smile to part | M |
| Who wore her love links fondly twined | N |
| Like woven threads of gold refined | N |
| Around their inmost heart | M |
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| Tears are upon the cheeks | O |
| Of little ones this day | B |
| God of the motherless whose eye | P |
| Notes even the ravens when they cry | P |
| Wipe Thou their tears away | B |
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| Oh comfort all who grieve | Q |
| Beside the sacred urn | R |
| For brief our space to wail or sigh | P |
| Like grass we fade like dreams we fly | P |
| And rest with those we mourn | S |
Lydia Howard Sigourney
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