Last Stanzas Of The Bush Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEFE GAGACCBHBC IJIJKKLMLM NONOPQQRQR| WHERE is Australia singer do you know | A |
| These sordid farms and joyless factories | B |
| Mephitic mines and lanes of pallid woe | A |
| Those ugly towns and cities such as these | B |
| With incense sick to all unworthy power | C |
| And all old sin in full malignant flower | C |
| No to her bourn her children still are faring | D |
| She is a temple that we are to build | E |
| For her the ages have been long preparing | F |
| She is a prophecy to be fulfilled | E |
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| All that we love in olden lands and lore | G |
| Was signal of her coming long ago | A |
| Bacon foresaw her Campanella More | G |
| And Plato s eyes were with her star aglow | A |
| Who toiled for Truth whate er their countries were | C |
| Who fought for Liberty they yearned for her | C |
| No corsair s gathering ground nor tryst for schemers | B |
| No chapman Carthage to a huckster Tyre | H |
| She is the Eldorado of old dreamers | B |
| The Sleeping Beauty of the world s desire | C |
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| She is the scroll on which we are to write | I |
| Mythologies our own and epics new | J |
| She is the port of our propitious flight | I |
| From Ur idolatrous and Pharaoh s crew | J |
| She is our own unstained if worthy we | K |
| By dream or god or star we would not see | K |
| Her crystal beams all but the eagle dazzle | L |
| Her wind wide ways none but the strong winged sail | M |
| She is Eutopia she is Hy Brasil | L |
| The watchers on the tower of morning hail | M |
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| Yet she shall be as we the Potter mould | N |
| Altar or tomb as we aspire despair | O |
| What wine we bring shall she the chalice hold | N |
| What word we write shall she the script declare | O |
| Bandage our eyes she shall be Memphis Spain | P |
| Barter our souls she shall be Tyre again | Q |
| And if we pour on her the red oblation | Q |
| All o er the world shall Asshur s buzzards throng | R |
| Love lit her Chaos shall become Creation | Q |
| And dewed with dream her silence flower in song | R |
Bernard O'dowd
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