Oh! Think Not My Spirits Are Always As Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEG HIHIJKKKLMLM| Oh think not my spirits are always as light | A |
| And as free from a pang as they seem to you now | B |
| Nor expect that the heart beaming smile of to night | A |
| Will return with to morrow to brighten my brow | B |
| No life is a waste of wearisome hours | C |
| Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns | D |
| And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers | C |
| Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns | D |
| But send round the bowl and be happy awhile | E |
| May we never meet worse in our pilgrimage here | F |
| Than the tear that enjoyment may gild with a smile | E |
| And the smile that compassion can turn to a tear | G |
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| The thread of our life would be dark Heaven knows | H |
| If it were not with friendship and love intertwined | I |
| And I care not how soon I may sink to repose | H |
| When these blessing shall cease to be dear to my mind | I |
| But they who have loved the fondest the purest | J |
| Too often have wept o'er the dream they believed | K |
| And the heart that has slumber'd in friendship securest | K |
| Is happy indeed if 'twas never deceived | K |
| But send round the bowl while a relic of truth | L |
| Is in man or in woman this prayer shall be mine | M |
| That the sunshine of love may illumine our youth | L |
| And the moonlight of friendship console our decline | M |
Thomas Moore
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