Life's Curtain Unrolled Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFGHIJJ BBBKBBLL MMNNOOBB PPQIJJBB RLJJSTBU BBVVJJWW| Glad boyish voices with merriment ring | A |
| Two children with nought as gayly they sing | A |
| Of burdensome care their hearts as the bird | B |
| To mountains oft' soar in freedom unstirred | B |
| By future and what it furtively brings | C |
| Of pleasures or grief or life's bitter stings | C |
| The shadowed cross e'er failing to see | D |
| Thoughts flitting as bubbles on oft' changing sea | D |
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| From childhood spring youths with fair open brows | E |
| Surrounded by all earth ever allows | E |
| Of conquering fame while life's deepest charm | F |
| They sip from the fount of love's laden balm | G |
| Of treasures untold to reap they aspire | H |
| At vanity's fair rich harvests acquire | I |
| Over this vision in mystery toss | J |
| A shadow that lifts unveiling a cross | J |
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| In wonder they gaze at spectre so white | B |
| As softly it beams in silvery light | B |
| 'Mid silence it pleads they pause all aghast | B |
| 'Tis Jesus who calls His Cross in their path | K |
| Cross misty with tears with sacrifice fraught | B |
| While deeply inlaid with sorrows 'tis wrought | B |
| Divided from world by widening stream | L |
| It leadeth through pain earth's conquests a gleam | L |
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| Shall I Shall I not Self questioned each youth | M |
| Take up this Cross all laden with truth | M |
| Shall lingering fear of poverty's vale | N |
| The scoffing of friends if honors should fail | N |
| Bar us accepting a promise of love | O |
| By way of the Cross the gift from above | O |
| Silently each life's curtain unfurled | B |
| One bends to his Cross one flees to the world | B |
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| Two pictures are drawn on life's beaten page | P |
| The faces once seen have ripened with age | P |
| The purpose of each their loved ones a dower | Q |
| And conflicts of life are wielding with power | I |
| Surfeited was one with all earthly lusts | J |
| His soul he'ed surrendered to prince of earth's trusts | J |
| One bearing a Cross e'er toiling for right | B |
| Walking with Jesus in spirit waxed bright | B |
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| There's pictured again in oft' changing scene | R |
| A tottering form appears in the dream | L |
| Furrowed his face from indulgence in sins | J |
| Eternity lost to gold fondly clings | J |
| He'd bartered his soul a few years to live | S |
| And sinking the grave has nothing to give | T |
| Unloved and embittered e'en cross once refused | B |
| Gleamed sadly through mists then slowly withdrew | U |
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| Our vision once more life's curtain unrolled | B |
| And walked beside one with jewels untold | B |
| Unfurrowed his brow though whitened the hair | V |
| Eternally blest when freed earthly care | V |
| The cross he'd accepted oft' riven in tears | J |
| And humble his walk through life's fleeting years | J |
| Had given sweet peace as only those know | W |
| Who've tasted of wealth Christs' love doth bestow | W |
Mary Alice Walton
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