Song. For A Temperance Dinner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BBCC DAEE FFBB GGHH DDGG| For a Temperance dinner to which ladies were | A |
| Invited new York Mercantile library Association | B |
| November | A |
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| A health to dear woman She bids us untwine | B |
| From the cup it encircles the fast clinging vine | B |
| But her cheek in its crystal with pleasure will glow | C |
| And mirror its bloom in the bright wave below | C |
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| A health to sweet woman The days are no more | D |
| When she watched for her lord till the revel was o er | A |
| And smoothed the white pillow and blushed when he came | E |
| As she pressed her cold lips on his forehead of flame | E |
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| Alas for the loved one too spotless and fair | F |
| The joys of his banquet to chasten and share | F |
| Her eye lost its light that his goblet might shine | B |
| And the rose of her cheek was dissolved in his wine | B |
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| Joy smiles in the fountain health flows in the rills | G |
| As their ribbons of silver unwind from the hills | G |
| They breathe not the mist of the bacchanal s dream | H |
| But the lilies of innocence float on their stream | H |
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| Then a health and a welcome to woman once more | D |
| She brings us a passport that laughs at our door | D |
| It is written on crimson its letters are pearls | G |
| It is countersigned Nature So room for the Girls | G |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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