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 KCCKI love thee Sabbath morn I cannot say | A |
But 'tis because my father loved thee so | B |
Because my mother's care worn face would grow | B |
So sweetly placid in thy peaceful ray | A |
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It may be that is part of what endears | B |
Thee Sabbath to my soul for memory stirs | B |
Old buried thoughts of his voice and of hers | B |
Heard never more on Earth till sudden tears | B |
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So sadly sweet well up I bid them flow | B |
They leave a Sabbath in the soul when past | C |
As when the sky by April clouds o'ercast | C |
Shows fairer in the sun's returning glow | B |
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I see the grass grown lane we trod of old | C |
Dear father sainted mother while | D |
The Sabbath sun looked down with loving smile | D |
And touched the hills and streams with rippling gold | C |
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I hear your voices as ye talked what time | E |
In childish pride I walked before and thought | C |
This world a paradise and Earth full fraught | C |
With blessedness and love a summer clime | E |
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Of changeless beauty Ah those streams flow on | F |
Blue are those skies as green the woods as still | G |
The Sabbath hush that foldeth vale and hill | G |
In sweet embrace but ye beloved are gone | H |
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She sleeps in stranger dust He old and lone | I |
Long waited by the river staff in hand | C |
Till a voice called him and he sought that land | C |
Where age takes on fresh youth to change unknown | I |
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And we are parted brothers sisters dear | J |
Alas the band is broken One by one | K |
Ye left the hill side green the Sabbath sun | K |
Finds those old paths to day forsaken drear | J |
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And Mem'ry paints me yet another scene | L |
A home love lighted by an earnest eye | M |
A home of fellowship so pure so high | M |
I pause and ask myself have such things been | N |
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Or have I dreamed Was it a blessed dream | E |
A dream of peace and rest and hallowed calm | E |
The skies all sunshine and the air all balm | E |
The tranquil hours aglow with Heaven's own beam | E |
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A dream a dream the long long clouded day | C |
That ended in a longer sadder night | C |
When in my home went out that blessed light | C |
And Love from its hushed chambers passed away | C |
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O no oh no 'Tis but the old old tale | O |
Of human bliss and human agony | P |
Of morning's joy bells ringing full and free | P |
And evening's hollow winds and funeral wail | O |
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Yet thou art left me Sabbath In thy light | C |
I sit and muse this sweet June morning till | G |
The past with all its varied scenes of good and ill | G |
Fades from my thought fades with the bliss and blight | C |
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The short lived transports of those buried years | B |
The summer flowers I gathered with such pains | B |
The gold I hoarded in slow gathered grains | B |
All lost the summer chilled by Autumn's tears | B |
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The long lone flowerless autumn when the sun | K |
Hurled from his zenith shivered cold and pale | O |
On the horizon's verge the funeral wail | O |
O tempest burdened winds through forests dim | E |
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And desolate and drear all pass away | C |
This morn O Sabbath in thy hallowed light | C |
And glancing far beyond the infinite | C |
Of thy blue heavens where a clearer day | C |
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Lights the Eternal hills I seem to see | P |
The Heavenly City whence the radiant gleam | E |
Of a fair Temple and a crystal stream | E |
Of living water wanders down to me | P |
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In changeless light O Home O Rest O Heaven | K |
Thus to thy hallowed calm I'd look away | C |
Sabbath of God Eternal Sabbath day | C |
Till to my soul thy tranquil rest is given | K |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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