A Mother's Lament For An Only One Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHI JKGK LMNM OKPK QRSR TUVU VWXW FYZY| CLARISSA HARLOW | A |
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| Seek not to calm my grief | B |
| To stay the falling tear | C |
| Have pity on me ye my friends | D |
| The hand of God is here | E |
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| She was my only one | F |
| Oh then my love how great | G |
| Now she is gone my heart and home | H |
| Are empty desolate | I |
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| I thought not in my love | J |
| That we were doomed to part | K |
| Now I am childless and my fate | G |
| Falls heavy on my heart | K |
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| O Thou who gave the gift | L |
| Who took the gift away | M |
| Who only can heal up the wound | N |
| Give answer while I pray | M |
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| Do Thou send comfort down | O |
| All goodness as Thou art | K |
| Even in Thy last passion Thou | P |
| Didst soothe a mother's heart | K |
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| I would not take her back | Q |
| From Thee from Heaven and bliss | R |
| Though yearning for her twining arms | S |
| And happy loving kiss | R |
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| I miss her bounding step | T |
| Her voice of bird like glee | U |
| Yet thank Thee I had such a child | V |
| To give her back to Thee | U |
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| Father my child my child | V |
| Is laid beneath the sod | W |
| and oh with quivering lips I try | X |
| To kiss the chastening rod | W |
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| Father Thy will be done | F |
| Oh make my will the same | Y |
| And teach me in this trying hour | Z |
| To glorify Thy name | Y |
Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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