On Miss Fitzgerald And Lord Kerry Planting Two Cedars In The Churchyard Of Bremhill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGDDHHII DDAAJJKKLLMMEENN| Yes Pamela this infant tree | A |
| Planted in sacred earth by thee | A |
| Shall strike its root and pleasant grow | B |
| Whilst I am mouldering dust below | B |
| This churchyard turf shall still be green | C |
| When other pastors here are seen | C |
| Who gazing on that dial gray | D |
| Shall mourn like me life's passing ray | D |
| What says its monitory shade | E |
| Thyself so blooming now shalt fade | E |
| And even that fair and lightsome boy | F |
| Elastic as the step of joy | F |
| The future lord of yon domain | G |
| And all this wide extended plain | G |
| Shall yield to creeping time when they | D |
| Who loved him shall have passed away | D |
| Yet planted by his youthful hand | H |
| The fellow cedar still shall stand | H |
| And when it spreads its boughs around | I |
| Shading the consecrated ground | I |
| He may behold its shade and say | D |
| Himself then haply growing gray | D |
| Yes I remember aged tree | A |
| When I was young who planted thee | A |
| But long may time blithe maiden spare | J |
| Thy beaming eyes and crisped hair | J |
| Thy unaffected converse kind | K |
| Thy gentle and ingenuous mind | K |
| For him when I in dust repose | L |
| May virtue guide him as he grows | L |
| And may he when no longer young | M |
| Resemble those from whom he sprung | M |
| Then let these trees extend their shade | E |
| Or live or die or bloom or fade | E |
| Virtue uninjured and sublime | N |
| Shall lift her brightest wreath untouched by time | N |
William Lisle Bowles
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