The Emigrant's Vision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEBFBFGGGE HFHFIIIE JKJKJJJE LMLMNNNE| As his bark dashed away on the night shrouded deep | A |
| And out towards the South he was gazing | B |
| First there passed o er his spirit a darkness like sleep | A |
| Then the light of a vision amazing | B |
| As rises the moon from the white waves afar | C |
| Came a goddess it seemed of love wisdom and war | D |
| And on her bright helmet encircling a star | C |
| Behold there was graven Australia | E |
| Her robes were of green like the mantle of spring | B |
| Newly spread by the streams that so mildly | F |
| Flow on through yon flock dappled plains or that sing | B |
| Mid those blue ranging mountains so wildly | F |
| Her locks were as bright as the lustre that lies | G |
| At morn on the seas of the South and her eyes | G |
| Were as deep in their joy as the clear sunny skies | G |
| The clear sunny skies of Australia | E |
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| O stranger she said hast thou fled from the home | H |
| Which they forefathers bled for so vainly | F |
| Does shame for its past thus induce thee to roam | H |
| Or despair of its future constrain thee | F |
| In the far sunny South there s a refuge from wrong | I |
| Tis the Shiloh of freedom expected so long | I |
| There genius and glory shall shout forth their song | I |
| Tis the evergreen land of Australia | E |
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| There Truth her abode on the forest clad hills | J |
| Shall establish a dweller for ever | K |
| And Plenty rejoice by the gold pebbled rills | J |
| Well mated to honest endeavour | K |
| Till the future a numberless people shall see | J |
| Eager and noble and equal and free | J |
| And the God they adore their sole monarch shall be | J |
| Then come build thy home in Australia | E |
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| She said Towards the South she passed brightly away | L |
| And at once as from slumber he started | M |
| But the cadences sweet of the welcoming lay | L |
| Yet breathed of the vision departed | M |
| And when o er the deep these had fadingly spread | N |
| The swell of his heart as he rose from his bed | N |
| Broke loud into words on his tongue and he said | N |
| Be the home of my hope then Australia | E |
Charles Harpur
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