Hour-glass And Bible Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAABBADEDFDGD| Look Christian on thy Bible and that glass | A |
| That sheds its sand through minutes hours and days | B |
| And years it speaks not yet methinks it says | C |
| To every human heart so mortals pass | A |
| On to their dark and silent grave Alas | A |
| For man an exile upon earth he strays | B |
| Weary and wandering through benighted ways | B |
| To day in strength to morrow like the grass | A |
| That withers at his feet Lift up thy head | D |
| Poor pilgrim toiling in this vale of tears | E |
| That book declares whose blood for thee was shed | D |
| Who died to give thee life and though thy years | F |
| Pass like a shade pointing to thy death bed | D |
| Out of the deep thy cry an angel hears | G |
| And by his guiding hand thy steps to heaven are led | D |
William Lisle Bowles
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