Hymn At The Funeral Services Of Charles Sumner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCDEFE GHGHIJIJ KFKFLKL| APRIL | A |
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| SUNG BY MALE VOICES TO A NATIONAL AIR OF HOLLAND | B |
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| ONCE more ye sacred towers | C |
| Your solemn dirges sound | D |
| Strew loving hands the April flowers | C |
| Once more to deck his mound | D |
| A nation mourns its dead | E |
| Its sorrowing voices one | F |
| As Israel's monarch bowed his head | E |
| And cried 'My son My son ' | - |
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| Why mourn for him For him | G |
| The welcome angel came | H |
| Ere yet his eye with age was dim | G |
| Or bent his stately frame | H |
| His weapon still was bright | I |
| His shield was lifted high | J |
| To slay the wrong to save the right | I |
| What happier hour to die | J |
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| Thou orderest all things well | K |
| Thy servant's work was done | F |
| He lived to hear Oppression's knell | K |
| The shouts for Freedom won | F |
| Hark from the opening skies | L |
| The anthem's echoing swell | K |
| 'O mourning Land lift up thine eyes | L |
| God reigneth All is well ' | - |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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