The SIne Family Disaster



                     The Sine Family Disaster
On February the first in the year Twenty-nine,
A tragedy I will relate.
Concerning the family of Peter Sine.
And their terrible, terrible fate.

Father and mother, daughters and sons.
Retired as was usuel to rest.
With never a thought of danger or harm,
Or of danger they never guessed.

Yet before the chimes of midnight had rung
Like a candle their lives went out.
The messenger had come who takes no denial,
No matter what we are about.

A keg of powder carlesly left.
Near a fire not properly covered.
Becaume ignighted as was supposed.
Ant the entire group was smothered.

Ten lives in a moment was caught in the flames
All strugling for breath in the smoke.
Perhaps all writhing in anguish or pain,
Or perhaps a word never spoke.

God only knows what passed through the minds,
OF the ten who met with this fate.
Prepare to meed God while there is time.
Tomorrow may be to late.

Deaths messenger comes to all of our race.
Sometimes we may see his approach.
Wheather he comes meeting us face to face.
Or comes as a runaway coach.

Be under the banner of the crucified one
Be a soldier in the army of right
Then if you fall, you will hear the call.
And meet Him in garments of light.

Children in arms will the Savior embrace.
Children of fath he will keep.
Children of light, and children of grace.
For sutch none need ever weep.

To sutch death comes as a reward
To others it comes as their doom
So keep your lamps trimmed we learn from the word
There is no pardon, beyond the tomb.
                                                 ~ J.  G. Gordon

About this poem

I found this in my Dad's Bible, on a yellowed, folded sheet of paper. Dated December 1978 Any mispelled words written here as originally written.

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Submitted by bessie407 on March 28, 2023

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XABAB XCXC XDXD XEXE XFXF XBXB GHGH IJXJ GKGK XLELI
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,600
Words 328
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5

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