Bush Justice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFDGG HHIIJJKLLLMM| A Dealer bewitched by gain promising dreams | A |
| Settled down near my Station to trade with my Teams | A |
| And to sell to my men too from whom through the nose | B |
| Until then I had screw'd just what prices I chose | B |
| And for this to be sure I so hated the man | C |
| That I swore ne'er to rest till I'd settled some plan | C |
| Whereby in the Lockup to cleverly cram him | D |
| And so to my Super the matter I put | E |
| Who thereupon 'found' a sheep's head near his hut | F |
| And the 'how came it there ' was sufficient to damn him | D |
| The Beak before who I then lugg'd him as you | G |
| May suppose being neck deep in Squattery too | G |
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| 'Twas a beautiful Hearing as noted at large | H |
| By the Clerk who was bonuss'd sheep stealing the charge | H |
| 'Twould make your hearts laugh in the Records to see | I |
| How we bullied him out of his wits I say we | I |
| Because while on this side against him banged | J |
| On the other the Beak said he ought to be hanged | J |
| For a gallows grained scandalous son of transgression | K |
| And committing him then the case being so plain | L |
| We sent him three hundred miles 'down on the chain' | L |
| To his Trial and eke to his 'acquittal' at Session | L |
| For what care we Squatters for Law on a push | M |
| And for Justice what has she to do with the Bush | M |
Charles Harpur
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