The Traveling Post Office Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCDDABCCCCEEAB FGHHAB IIJJEECCAB| The roving breezes come and go the reed beds sweep pand sway | A |
| The sleepy river murmurs low and loiters on its way | A |
| It is the land of lots o' time along the Castlereagh | B |
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| The old man's son had left the farm he found it dull and slow | C |
| He drifted to the great north west where all the drovers go | C |
| He's gone so long the old man said he's dropped right out of mind | D |
| But if you'd write a line to him I'd take it very kind | D |
| He's shearing here and fencing there a kind of waif and stray | A |
| He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh | B |
| The sheep are traveling for the grass and traveling very slow | C |
| They may be at Mundooran now or past the Overflow | C |
| Or tramping down the black soil flats across by Waddiwong | C |
| But all those little country towns would send the letter wrong | C |
| The mailman if he's extra tired would pass them in his sleep | E |
| It's safest to address the note to 'Care of Conroy's sheep' | E |
| For five and twenty thousand head can scarcely go astray | A |
| You write ot 'Care of Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh' | B |
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| By rock and ridge and riverside the western mail has gone | F |
| Across the great Blue Mountain Range to take that letter on | G |
| A moment on the topmost grade while open fire doors glare | H |
| She pauses like a living thing to breathe the mountain air | H |
| Then launches down the other side across the plains away | A |
| To bear that note to Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh | B |
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| And now by coach and mailman's bag it goes from town to town | I |
| And Conroy's Gap and Conroy's Creek have marked it further down | I |
| Beneath a sky of deepest blue where never cloud abides | J |
| A speck upon the waste of plain the lonely mailman rides | J |
| Where fierce hot winds have set the pine and myall boughs asweep | E |
| He hails the shearers passing by for news of Conroy's sheep | E |
| By big lagoons where wildfowl play and crested pigeons flock | C |
| By campfires where the drovers ride around their restless stock | C |
| And past the teamster toiling down to fetch the wool away | A |
| My letter chases Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh | B |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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