A Hunting Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHI| Here's a health to every sportsman be he stableman or lord | A |
| If his heart be true I care not what his pocket may afford | A |
| And may he ever pleasantly each gallant sport pursue | B |
| If he takes his liquor fairly and his fences fairly too | B |
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| He cares not for the bubbles of Fortune's fickle tide | C |
| Who like Bendigo can battle and like Olliver can ride | C |
| He laughs at those who caution at those who chide he'll frown | D |
| As he clears a five foot paling or he knocks a peeler down | D |
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| The dull cold world may blame us boys but what care we the while | E |
| If coral lips will cheer us and bright eyes on us smile | E |
| For beauty's fond caresses can most tenderly repay | F |
| The weariness and trouble of many an anxious day | F |
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| Then fill your glass and drain it too with all your heart and soul | G |
| To the best of sports The Fox hunt The Fair Ones and The Bowl | G |
| To a stout heart in adversity through every ill to steer | H |
| And when Fortune smiles a score of friends like those around us here | I |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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