The Emigrants- Monument At Point St. Charles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFGFHH IJKJLL HMNMHH OPQPRR SEGEGT| A kindly thought a generous deed | A |
| Ye gallant sons of toil | B |
| No nobler trophy could ye raise | C |
| On your adopted soil | B |
| Than this monument to your kindred dead | D |
| Who sleep beneath in their cold dark bed | D |
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| Like you they left their fatherland | E |
| And crossed th Atlantic s foam | F |
| To seek for themselves a new career | G |
| And win another home | F |
| But alas for hearts that had beat so high | H |
| They reached the goal but only to die | H |
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| Let no rich worldling dare to say | I |
| For them why should we grieve | J |
| But paupers came they to our shores | K |
| Want sickness death to leave | J |
| Each active arm jail of power and health | L |
| And each honest heart was a mine of wealth | L |
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| Twas a mournful end to day dreams high | H |
| A sad and fearful doom | M |
| To exchange their fever stricken ships | N |
| For the loathsome typhus tomb | M |
| And ere they had smiled at Canada s sky | H |
| On this stranger land breathe their dying sigh | H |
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| The strong man in the prime of life | O |
| Struck down in one short hour | P |
| The loving wife the rose cheeked girl | Q |
| Fairer than opening flower | P |
| The ardent youth with fond hopes elate | R |
| O ertaken all by one common fate | R |
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| Long since forgotten here they rest | S |
| Sons of a distant land | E |
| The epochs of their short career | G |
| Mere footprints on life s sand | E |
| But this stone will tell through many a year | G |
| They died on our shores and they slumber here | T |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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