To My Daughter: Lines Received From My Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKM| My child the cold dews of evening are 'round thee | A |
| Bereft of thy sight | B |
| And dark lines of sorrow and trials surround thee | A |
| By day and by night | B |
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| To day I am sitting so dreary and lonely | A |
| Heart sick and in pain | C |
| And wishing 'twere Heaven's will I could only | A |
| Once see thee again | D |
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| If so I could bear all the pain and the sorrow | E |
| Of life and its cares | F |
| And not fill the hours of the coming to morrow | E |
| With sighs and with tears | F |
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| Like you many hopes of the future I cherished | G |
| When free from life's care | H |
| Just so all my brightest fond visions have perished | G |
| Like mists in the air | H |
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| I still hope that God in His merciful kindness | I |
| Thy sight will restore | J |
| And permit thee when perfectly healed of thy blindness | I |
| To see us once more | J |
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| But restore thee or not one hope I will cherish | K |
| At home and abroad | L |
| That I may submit to my fate though I perish | K |
| And trust in my God | M |
Mary Alice Walton
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