Be In Earnest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJCKCK LEMENONO ABABCDCD| Be in earnest Christian toilers | A |
| Life is not the summer dream | B |
| Of the careless child that gathers | A |
| Daisies in the noontide beam | B |
| It hath conflict it hath danger | C |
| It hath sorrow toil and strife | D |
| Yet the weak alone will falter | C |
| In the battle field of life | D |
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| There are burdens you may lighten | E |
| Toiling struggling ones may cheer | F |
| Tear dimmed eyes that you may brighten | E |
| Thorny paths that you may clear | F |
| Erring ones despised neglected | G |
| You may lead to duty back | H |
| Beacon lights to be erected | G |
| All along life's crowded track | H |
| - | |
| There are wrongs that must be righted | I |
| Sacred rights to be sustained | J |
| Truths though trampled long and slighted | I |
| 'Mid the strife to be maintained | J |
| Heavy brooding mists to scatter | C |
| Mists of ignorance and sin | K |
| Walls of adamant to shatter | C |
| Thus to let God's sunlight in | K |
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| Boundless is the field and fertile | L |
| Let the ploughshare deep be driven | E |
| So at length the plenteous harvest | M |
| Shall look smiling up to heaven | E |
| Sow the seed at early morning | N |
| Nor at evening stay thy hand | O |
| Precious fruits the earth adorning | N |
| Shall at length around thee stand | O |
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| Be in earnest Christian toilers | A |
| Life is not the summer dream | B |
| Of the careless child that gathers | A |
| Daisies in the noontide beam | B |
| Life hath conflict toil and danger | C |
| It hath sorrow pain and strife | D |
| Yet the weak alone will falter | C |
| In the battle field of life | D |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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