In Memory Of John Leach Craig Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFGG HBHBII JKJKLL JMJNBB FOFPQQ RSTSUU JBJBVV JWJWXX MYMYSS FAJAZZ JA2JA2B2B2 JZJZC2C2

In the midst of Life we are in DeathA
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What is it that has stilled the usual hurryB
Checking the eager tread of rapid feetC
Why does the business face look sad and sorryB
Within the place where merchants choose to meetC
A something not unusual or strangeD
One face is missing on the Corn ExchangeD
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Alas they say he had uncommon meritE
High the esteem and confidence he wonF
He brought to business life a joyous spiritE
And mixed commercial tact with boyish funF
We miss his breezy laugh his pleasant faceG
The skill that marked him for the foremost placeG
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There is a ship steaming across the billowH
That should have brought him to his mother's kneeB
Did warning dreams hover around her pillowH
Of the dear face she never more shall seeB
She sits at home deeming that all is wellI
Who shall the tale of her bereavement tellI
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She waited for him in the bright May morningJ
When the spring buds were blooming in their primeK
And the green earth was crowned with their adorningJ
To greet his coming with the summer timeK
The mists have fallen and her eyes are dimL
Looking across death's valley after himL
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The good ship sailed upon the day of sailingJ
And furled her sails in port the voyage o'erM
But in his home waiting is changed to wailingJ
For he will come to them on earth no moreN
The Master called he answered speedilyB
And sailed away across the silent seaB
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They praise him in the land of his adoptionF
Say what he was and what he might have beenO
Speak of the honours that were at his optionF
Since he came here a fair lad of nineteenP
That upward has his path been ever sinceQ
To sit among the first a merchant princeQ
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The never more chills through the friendly praisesR
Never to see his face his coming formS
Never his foot shall stand on Antrim daisiesT
Or tread again the Parks of old GalgormS
Nor sleep among his fathers silent stillU
Beneath the sycamores in fair Grace HillU
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His mother in her island home is weepingJ
For what her eyes desired she shall not seeB
The fair young wife her widowed vigil keepingJ
Among her babes on this side of the seaB
One in their sorrow which is all too deepV
For comfort theirs to sit apart and weepV
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Mother and wife one in their poignant grievingJ
One in their anguish over lifeless clayW
One in the consolation of believingJ
That he was worthy who has passed awayW
By sorrow consecrate and set apartX
To ponder all the past within their heartX
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The mother with her heartstrings quivering afterM
The Master's stroke sits underneath the crossY
The sad wife stilling all the childish laughterM
Of his sweet babes too young to feel their lossY
Who wonder in the quiet darkened homeS
Why their glad voiced papa will never comeS
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So in his home beside the terraced mountainF
They sit within the shadow of his deathA
So they who were the tardy moments countingJ
Till he would come to them with summer's breathA
His kith and kin by the Maine water's sideZ
Weep very sore for love of him that diedZ
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Oh Death is ever coming loved ones goingJ
Hearts rent with sorrow because one is notA2
The waves of trouble ever swelling flowingJ
Past the tall castle past the sheltered cotA2
I am bereaved is the unceasing moanB2
Rising forever to our Father's throneB2
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O Christ Thou dost remember earthly weepingJ
When the bereaved at Thy dear feet have criedZ
Beside the grave where the much loved lay sleepingJ
Lord if Thou hadst been here he had not diedZ
Comfort the mourning friends the sorrowing wifeC2
O Thou the Resurrection and the lifeC2

Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)



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