Epitaph On H. Walmsley, Esq., Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCAADDAAEEFFAA| IN ALVERSTOKE CHURCH HANTS | A |
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| Oh they shall ne'er forget thee they who knew | B |
| Thy soul benevolent sincere and true | B |
| The poor thy kindness cheered thy bounty fed | C |
| Whom age left shivering in its dreariest shed | C |
| Thy friends who sorrowing saw thee when disease | A |
| Seemed first the genial stream of life to freeze | A |
| Pale from thy hospitable home depart | D |
| Thy hand still open and yet warm thy heart | D |
| But how shall she her love her loss express | A |
| Thy widow in this uttermost distress | A |
| When she with anguish hears her lisping train | E |
| Upon their buried father call in vain | E |
| She wipes the tear despair had forced to flow | F |
| She lifts her look beyond this vale of woe | F |
| And rests while humbled in the dust she kneels | A |
| On Him who only knows how much she feels | A |
William Lisle Bowles
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