Ballade Of The Southern Cross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBDBC ABEBBCBC F BCBC| Fair islands of the silver fleece | A |
| Hoards of unsunned uncounted gold | B |
| Whose havens are the haunts of Peace | A |
| Whose boys are in our quarrel bold | B |
| OUR bolt is shot our tale is told | B |
| Our ship of state in storms may toss | C |
| But ye are young if we are old | B |
| Ye Islands of the Southern Cross | C |
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| Ay WE must dwindle and decrease | A |
| Such fates the ruthless years unfold | B |
| And yet we shall not wholly cease | A |
| We shall not perish unconsoled | B |
| Nay still shall Freedom keep her hold | B |
| Within the sea's inviolate fosse | D |
| And boast her sons of English mould | B |
| Ye Islands of the Southern Cross | C |
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| All empires tumble Rome and Greece | A |
| Their swords are rust their altars cold | B |
| For us the Children of the Seas | E |
| Who ruled where'er the waves have rolled | B |
| For us in Fortune's books enscrolled | B |
| I read no runes of hopeless loss | C |
| Nor while YE last our knell is tolled | B |
| Ye Islands of the Southern Cross | C |
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| ENVOY | F |
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| Britannia when thy hearth's a cold | B |
| When o'er thy grave has grown the moss | C |
| Still Rule Australia shall be trolled | B |
| In Islands of the Southern Cross | C |
Andrew Lang
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