A Simple, Cheerful Active Life On Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIJI EGEGKEKK| A simple cheerful active life on earth | A |
| A cup I d not exchange for monarch s chalice | B |
| In noble forebears tracks a path since birth | A |
| With equal dignity in hut and palace | C |
| With eye as when created heav nward turned | D |
| All beauty here and grandness keenly knowing | E |
| Familiar though with those things deeply yearned | D |
| Stilled only by eternity s bright glowing | E |
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| I wished for all my line just such a life | F |
| And zealously I planned for its fruition | G |
| And when my soul grew tired from toil and strife | F |
| The Lord s Prayer was its rest and its nutrition | G |
| Then from truth s spirit I great comfort gained | H |
| And felt joy hover o er each garden border | I |
| When dust is placed in its creator s hand | J |
| And all is waited for in nature s order | I |
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| Just fresh green buds that sprout in early spring | E |
| And in the summer heat the flowers profusion | G |
| And when the plants mature and long to bring | E |
| Their harvest fruit to autumn s full conclusion | G |
| The human span assigned is short or long | K |
| It is for common weal its yield is growing | E |
| The day that started well will end as strong | K |
| And just as sweet will be its afterglowing | K |
Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig
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