To J. H. And E. W. H. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BCC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH III| Nourished by peaceful suns and gracious dew | A |
| Your sweet youth budded and your sweet lives grew | A |
| And all the world seemed rose beset for you | A |
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| The rose of beauty was your mutual dower | B |
| The stainless rose of love an early flower | C |
| The stately blooms of ease and wealth and power | C |
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| And treading thus on pathways flower bestrewn | D |
| It well might be that cold and careless grown | D |
| You both had lived for your own joys alone | D |
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| But holding all these fair things as in trust | E |
| Gently you walked still scattering on the dust | E |
| Of harder roads which others tread and must | E |
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| Your heritage of brightness not a ray | F |
| Of noontide sought you out but straight away | F |
| You caught and halved it with some darker day | F |
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| And as the sweet saint's loaves were turned it is said | G |
| To roses so your roses turned to bread | G |
| That hungering souls and weary might be fed | G |
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| Dear friends my poor words do but paint you wrong | H |
| Nor can I utter in one trivial song | H |
| The goodness I have honored for so long | H |
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| Only this leaf a single petal flung | I |
| One chord from a full harmony unsung | I |
| May speak the life long love that lacks a tongue | I |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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