Service 2 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDBD EFEF GGFG HIHI JJI KLKL MMLM NONO PPOP QRQ SSRS| I passed a cottage 'twixt the town and wood | A |
| And marked its garden blossoming bright and bold | B |
| And breathing many a scent Awhile I stood | A |
| Near pink and marigold | B |
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| It seemed a place of prayer of love and peace | C |
| Where gray Content with children at his knees | D |
| Like blessings manifold | B |
| Rested among the trees | D |
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| An old man came into the garden plot | E |
| And 'mid the tansy and the scarlet sage | F |
| Found for himseft a dim and quiet spot | E |
| Wherein to turn a page | F |
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| For in his hand he bore a well thumbed book | G |
| Upon whose pages now and then he'd look | G |
| And then as if with age | F |
| His hoary head he shook | G |
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| I said to him 'You have a lovely place | H |
| How rich your garden blooms How sweet its shade | I |
| How good to sit here in the eve and face | H |
| Those hills of woods while fade | I |
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| The sunset's splendors like a bannered host | J |
| Before the glory of the Holy Ghost | J |
| While Dusk in light arrayed | I |
| Takes up his starry post ' | - |
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| The old man smiled and turned around to stare | K |
| Not at me but above my head as if | L |
| He saw a form a flying phantom there | K |
| A flaming hippogriff | L |
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| Then said 'You find here what I keep in mind | M |
| Thoughts thoughts of beauty with which God is kind | M |
| To an old man grown stiff | L |
| And half way deaf and blind | M |
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| 'This garden now in every herb and flower | N |
| Expresses what the Bible says in part | O |
| Unto my soul To serve God every hour | N |
| In thought or through some art | O |
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| With loveliness as men did long ago | P |
| Work at some beauty that shall gleam and glow | P |
| With worship of the heart | O |
| Whose dream shall burn below | P |
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| 'For men may serve God in their humblest works | Q |
| In gardens say like mine wherein the Word | R |
| Walks with me and in every rosebush lurks | Q |
| 'God's blessing like a bird ' | - |
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| And so he ceased And like the Seraphim | S |
| The sunset clouds spread golden over him | S |
| And in the trees I heard | R |
| The wind like some far hymn | S |
Madison Julius Cawein
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