Sabbath Memories Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBA BBBB BCCB CDDC ECCE FGGH ICCI JKKJ LMMN EEEE CCCC OPPO CGGC BBBB KOOE CCCC PEEP KCCK

I love thee Sabbath morn I cannot sayA
But 'tis because my father loved thee soB
Because my mother's care worn face would growB
So sweetly placid in thy peaceful rayA
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It may be that is part of what endearsB
Thee Sabbath to my soul for memory stirsB
Old buried thoughts of his voice and of hersB
Heard never more on Earth till sudden tearsB
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So sadly sweet well up I bid them flowB
They leave a Sabbath in the soul when pastC
As when the sky by April clouds o'ercastC
Shows fairer in the sun's returning glowB
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I see the grass grown lane we trod of oldC
Dear father sainted mother whileD
The Sabbath sun looked down with loving smileD
And touched the hills and streams with rippling goldC
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I hear your voices as ye talked what timeE
In childish pride I walked before and thoughtC
This world a paradise and Earth full fraughtC
With blessedness and love a summer climeE
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Of changeless beauty Ah those streams flow onF
Blue are those skies as green the woods as stillG
The Sabbath hush that foldeth vale and hillG
In sweet embrace but ye beloved are goneH
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She sleeps in stranger dust He old and loneI
Long waited by the river staff in handC
Till a voice called him and he sought that landC
Where age takes on fresh youth to change unknownI
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And we are parted brothers sisters dearJ
Alas the band is broken One by oneK
Ye left the hill side green the Sabbath sunK
Finds those old paths to day forsaken drearJ
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And Mem'ry paints me yet another sceneL
A home love lighted by an earnest eyeM
A home of fellowship so pure so highM
I pause and ask myself have such things beenN
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Or have I dreamed Was it a blessed dreamE
A dream of peace and rest and hallowed calmE
The skies all sunshine and the air all balmE
The tranquil hours aglow with Heaven's own beamE
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A dream a dream the long long clouded dayC
That ended in a longer sadder nightC
When in my home went out that blessed lightC
And Love from its hushed chambers passed awayC
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O no oh no 'Tis but the old old taleO
Of human bliss and human agonyP
Of morning's joy bells ringing full and freeP
And evening's hollow winds and funeral wailO
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Yet thou art left me Sabbath In thy lightC
I sit and muse this sweet June morning tillG
The past with all its varied scenes of good and illG
Fades from my thought fades with the bliss and blightC
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The short lived transports of those buried yearsB
The summer flowers I gathered with such painsB
The gold I hoarded in slow gathered grainsB
All lost the summer chilled by Autumn's tearsB
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The long lone flowerless autumn when the sunK
Hurled from his zenith shivered cold and paleO
On the horizon's verge the funeral wailO
O tempest burdened winds through forests dimE
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And desolate and drear all pass awayC
This morn O Sabbath in thy hallowed lightC
And glancing far beyond the infiniteC
Of thy blue heavens where a clearer dayC
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Lights the Eternal hills I seem to seeP
The Heavenly City whence the radiant gleamE
Of a fair Temple and a crystal streamE
Of living water wanders down to meP
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In changeless light O Home O Rest O HeavenK
Thus to thy hallowed calm I'd look awayC
Sabbath of God Eternal Sabbath dayC
Till to my soul thy tranquil rest is givenK

Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)



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