From The Old To The New. Lines For The New Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCAADDEE FGFGHDHDI JHHKKJ LMNNJ OODDJ FPFPFQFQOOI| I hear the beat of the unresting tide | A |
| On either shore as swiftly on I glide | A |
| With eager haste the narrow channel o'er | B |
| Which links the floods behind with those before | C |
| I hear behind me as I onward glide | A |
| Faint farewell voices blending with the tide | A |
| While from beyond now near now far away | D |
| Come stronger voices chiding each delay | D |
| And drowning oft with wild discordant burst | E |
| The melancholy minor of the first | E |
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| Farewell farewell ye leave us far behind you | F |
| Tis thus the bright winged Hours sigh from the Past | G |
| Ye leave us and the coming ones will find you | F |
| Still vainly dreaming they will ever last | G |
| Still trifling with the gifts all fresh and glowing | H |
| Each in its turn will scatter in your way | D |
| Still chasing airy phantoms though well knowing | H |
| That ere you grasp them they will melt away | D |
| Farewell farewell | I |
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| Haste haste haste | J |
| Thus from the Future the voices ring | H |
| The air is balmy with breath of spring | H |
| The waters sleep in the morning light | K |
| The storms are hushed and the skies are bright | K |
| Haste haste haste | J |
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| Isles of beauty and bloom are here | L |
| Groves whose leafage is never sere | M |
| Teeming harvests of boundless wealth | N |
| Peace and plenty and buoyant health | N |
| Haste haste haste | J |
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| Joy bells ring in the sunny air | O |
| Mirth and music are everywhere | O |
| Bend to the oars and away away | D |
| While the ripples dance and the breezes play | D |
| Haste haste haste | J |
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| Farewell farewell ye leave us far behind you | F |
| Us the lost Hours that would have blessed you so | P |
| Yet as ye leave us let our strains remind you | F |
| That we not empty handed Heavenward go | P |
| Records we bear of all the good we brought you | F |
| Of all we offered all that ye refused | Q |
| Of all the lessons we in patience taught you | F |
| Of wasted time of privilege abused | Q |
| To God's tribunal we those records bear | O |
| Sometime remember they will meet you there | O |
| Farewell farewell | I |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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