In Church. 1916 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDEDDEDFGFEHEIEE JKLLKGKMKNEOE KPQR| Where are all the young men | A |
| There are only grey heads here | B |
| What has become of the young men | A |
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| This is the young men's year | C |
| They are gone one and all at duty's call | D |
| To the camp to the trench to the sea | E |
| They have left their homes they have left their all | D |
| And now in ways heroical | D |
| They are making history | E |
| From bank and shop from bench and mill | D |
| From the schools from the tail of the plough | F |
| They hurried away at the call of the fray | G |
| They could not linger a day and now | F |
| They are making history | E |
| And we miss them sorely as we look | H |
| At the seats where they used to be | E |
| And try to picture them as they are | I |
| Then hastily drop the vail for you see | E |
| They are making history | E |
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| And history in these dread days | J |
| Is sore sore sad in the making | K |
| We are building the future with our dead | L |
| We are binding it sure with the brave blood shed | L |
| Though our hearts are well nigh breaking | K |
| We can but pray that the coming day | G |
| Will reap of our red sowing | K |
| The harvest meet of a world complete | M |
| With the peace of God's bestowing | K |
| So with quiet heart we do our part | N |
| In the travail of this mystery | E |
| We give of our best and we leave the rest | O |
| To Him Who maketh history | E |
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| Some Hymns of Thanksgiving | K |
| Praise and Petition for use at The | P |
| Coming Peace which please God | Q |
| cannot now be long delayed | R |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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