Commissioned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEDE FGBHB IJKLK MNONP QRDRD SBOBO TUVUV KWXWX YZPZP A2NB2NC2| Do their errands enter into the sacrifice with them be a link yourself in the divine chain and feel the joy and life of it | A |
| ADELINE D T WHITNEY | B |
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| What can I do for thee Beloved | C |
| Whose feet so little while ago | D |
| Trod the same way side dust with mine | E |
| And now up paths I do not know | D |
| Speed without sound or sign | E |
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| What can I do The perfect life | F |
| All fresh and fair and beautiful | G |
| Has opened its wide arms to thee | B |
| Thy cup is over brimmed and full | H |
| Nothing remains for me | B |
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| I used to do so many things | I |
| Love thee and chide thee and caress | J |
| Brush little straws from off thy way | K |
| Tempering with my poor tenderness | L |
| The heat of thy short day | K |
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| Not much but very sweet to give | M |
| And it is grief of griefs to bear | N |
| That all these ministries are o'er | O |
| And thou so happy Love elsewhere | N |
| Never can need me more | P |
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| And I can do for thee but this | Q |
| Working on blindly knowing not | R |
| If I may give thee pleasure so | D |
| Out of my own dull burdened lot | R |
| I can arise and go | D |
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| To sadder lives and darker homes | S |
| A messenger dear heart from thee | B |
| Who wast on earth a comforter | O |
| And say to those who welcome me | B |
| I am sent forth by her | O |
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| Feeling the while how good it is | T |
| To do thy errands thus and think | U |
| It may be in the blue far space | V |
| Thou watchest from the heaven's brink | U |
| A smile upon my face | V |
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| And when the day's work ends with day | K |
| And star eyed evening stealing in | W |
| Waves a cool hand to flying noon | X |
| And restless surging thoughts begin | W |
| Like sad bells out of tune | X |
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| I'll pray Dear Lord to whose great love | Y |
| Nor bound nor limit line is set | Z |
| Give to my darling I implore | P |
| Some new sweet joy not tasted yet | Z |
| For I can give no more | P |
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| And with the words my thoughts shall climb | A2 |
| With following feet the heavenly stair | N |
| Up which thy steps so lately sped | B2 |
| And seeing thee so happy there | N |
| Come back half comforted | C2 |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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