Lines In Memory Of The Late Ven. Archdeacon Elwood, A.m Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQRQ SLSL MTMT UMUM VWVW XYXY ZXZX XA2XA2| When men of gentle lives depart | A |
| They leave behind no brilliant story | B |
| Of fam'd exploits to make men start | A |
| In wonder at their dazzling glory | B |
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| The scholar's light religion's beams | C |
| Tho' fill'd with great commanding pow'r | D |
| In modest greatness throw their gleams | C |
| In quiet rays from hour to hour | E |
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| The greatest battles oft are fought | F |
| Unseen by any earthly eye | G |
| The victors all alone have wrought | F |
| And unapplauded live or die | G |
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| 'Twas thus with thee thou rev'rend man | H |
| In peaceful holy work thy life | I |
| Was spent until th' allotted span | H |
| Was cut by Time's relentless knife | I |
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| Far from the keen and heartless train | J |
| Who daily feel Ambition's sting | K |
| Thy life remov'd felt not the pain | J |
| Which goads each one beneath her wing | K |
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| What pains thou felt what joys thou knew | L |
| Who shall presume to think or tell | M |
| But this we know there daily grew | L |
| Within thy heart a living well | M |
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| That well of love increas'd each day | N |
| The milk of human kindness flow'd | O |
| And cheer'd the faint ones on their way | N |
| Along a hard and toilsome road | O |
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| Thy voice rang out for years and years | P |
| In fancy yet we hear its roll | Q |
| And see thy face thro' blinding tears | R |
| Fill'd with a love for ev'ry soul | Q |
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| Thy words we shall not soon forget | S |
| Thy deeds shall be remember'd too | L |
| And now while ev'ry eye is wet | S |
| Let us accord thee honor due | L |
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| Thou battl'd not 'gainst hosts of hell | M |
| With words alone convincing warm | T |
| Thy deeds were like the fatal shell | M |
| That bursts amid the battle's storm | T |
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| The temple now which stately stands | U |
| A lasting monument shall tell | M |
| Of lib'ral hearts and willing hands | U |
| Urg'd on by thee to labor well | M |
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| O father friend well see no more | V |
| Thy fight is done and it was long | W |
| But thou hast reach'd another shore | V |
| And singeth now a blessed song | W |
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| The snows shall come upon the hills | X |
| The valleys too with white be spread | Y |
| The birds shall whistle by the rills | X |
| The flowers shall their fragrance shed | Y |
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| The spring shall come to deck the earth | Z |
| In garb of vernal loveliness | X |
| And sorrow shall abound and mirth | Z |
| Betimes shall cheer our deep distress | X |
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| The seasons shall perform their rounds | X |
| And vegetation bloom and fade | A2 |
| But thou wilt heed nor sights nor sounds | X |
| For thou to rest for aye art laid | A2 |
Thomas Frederick Young
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