Spring Lilies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG FHFHGIJI FKLKFMNM JOJOJPCP GEQERJJS JHRHJTJU| 'Neath their green and cool cathedrals | A |
| In the garden lilies bloom | B |
| Casting to the fresh Spring Zephyrs | C |
| Peal on peal of sweet perfume | B |
| Often have I pausing near them | D |
| When the sunset flushed the sky | E |
| Seen the coral bells vibrating | F |
| With their fragrant harmony | G |
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| And within my quiet dwelling | F |
| I have now a Lily fair | H |
| Whose young spirit's sweet Spring budding | F |
| Watch I with unfailing care | H |
| God in placing her beside me | G |
| Made my being most complete | I |
| And my heart keeps time for ever | J |
| With the music of her feet | I |
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| I remember not while gazing | F |
| In her earnest eyes of blue | K |
| That the earth has aught of sorrow | L |
| Aught less innocent and true | K |
| And the restlessness and longing | F |
| Wakened by the cares of day | M |
| With the burden and the tumult | N |
| In her presence fall away | M |
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| Shield my Lily Holy Father | J |
| Shield her from the whirlwind's might | O |
| But protracted sunshine temper | J |
| With a soft and starry night | O |
| 'Neath the burning suns of Summer | J |
| Withered scorched the spring flower lies | P |
| Human hearts contract when strangers | C |
| Long to clouds and tearful eyes | P |
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| Give her purpose strong and holy | G |
| Faith and self devotion high | E |
| These Life's common by ways brighten | Q |
| Every hope intensify | E |
| Teach her all the brave endurance | R |
| That the sons of earth require | J |
| May she with a patient labor | J |
| To the great and good aspire | S |
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| Should some mighty grief oppress her | J |
| Heavier than she can bear | H |
| Oh sustain her by Thy presence | R |
| Hear and answer Thou her prayer | H |
| And whene'er the storms of winter | J |
| Round my precious Lily reign | T |
| To a fairer clime transplant her | J |
| There to live and bloom again | U |
Mary Gardiner Horsford
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