The Parting Song - Festival Of The Alumni, 1857 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEDE FGFGH AIAIH JKLKH MEMEH| The noon of summer sheds its ray | A |
| On Harvard's holy ground | B |
| The Matron calls the sons obey | A |
| And gather smiling round | B |
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| CHORUS | C |
| Then old and young together stand | D |
| The sunshine and the snow | E |
| As heart to heart and hand in hand | D |
| We sing before we go | E |
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| Her hundred opening doors have swung | F |
| Through every storied hall | G |
| The pealing echoes loud have rung | F |
| Thrice welcome one and all | G |
| Then old and young etc | H |
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| We floated through her peaceful bay | A |
| To sail life's stormy seas | I |
| But left our anchor where it lay | A |
| Beneath her green old trees | I |
| Then old and young etc | H |
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| As now we lift its lengthening chain | J |
| That held us fast of old | K |
| The rusted rings grow bright again | L |
| Their iron turns to gold | K |
| Then old and young etc | H |
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| Though scattered ere the setting sun | M |
| As leaves when wild winds blow | E |
| Our home is here our hearts are one | M |
| Till Charles forgets to flow | E |
| Then old and young etc | H |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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