When Cold In The Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKLMLM| When cold in the earth lies the friend thou hast loved | A |
| Be his faults and his follies forgot by thee then | B |
| Or if from their slumber the veil be removed | C |
| Weep o'er them in silence and close it again | B |
| And oh if 'tis pain to remember how far | D |
| From the pathways of light he was tempted to roam | E |
| Be it bliss to remember that thou wert the star | D |
| That arose on his darkness and guided him home | E |
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| From thee and thy innocent beauty first came | F |
| The revealings that taught him true love to adore | G |
| To feel the bright presence and turn him with shame | F |
| From the idols he blindly had knelt to before | G |
| O'er the waves of a life long benighted and wild | H |
| Thou camest like a soft golden calm o'er the sea | I |
| And if happiness purely and glowingly smiled | H |
| On his evening horizon the light was from thee | I |
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| And though sometimes the shades of past folly might rise | J |
| And though falsehood again would allure him to stray | K |
| He but turn'd to the glory that dwelt in those eyes | J |
| And the folly the falsehood soon vanish'd away | K |
| As the Priests of the Sun when their altar grew dim | L |
| At the day beam alone could its lustre repair | M |
| So if virtue a moment grew languid in him | L |
| He but flew to that smile and rekindled it there | M |
Thomas Moore
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