Come Ye Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB CCDCCD EEFCC CDCDGHGHG GGICCI GGJCCJ CCFCCF GKGKGLGLG| Listening said the old grey Digger | A |
| With my finger on the trigger | A |
| I was listening in the trenches on a dark night long ago | B |
| And a lull came in the fighting | C |
| Save a sudden gun flash lighting | C |
| Some black verge And I fell thinking of lost mates I used to know | B |
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| Listening waiting stern watch keeping | C |
| I heard little whispers creeping | C |
| In from where 'mid fair fields tortured No man's land loomed out before | D |
| And well I knew good mates were lying | C |
| There grim faced and death defying | C |
| In that filth and noisome litter and the horror that was war | D |
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| List'ning so a mood came o'er me | E |
| And 'twas like a vision bore me | E |
| To a deeper lonelier darkness where the souls of dead men roam | F |
| Where they wander strife unheading | C |
| And I heard a wistful pleading | C |
| Down the lanes where lost men journey 'Come ye home Ah come ye home ' | - |
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| 'Ye who fail yet triumph failing' | C |
| Ye who fall yet falling soar | D |
| Into realms where brother hailing | C |
| Brother bids farewell to war | D |
| Ye for whom this red hell ended | G |
| With the last great shuddering breath | H |
| In the mute uncomprehended | G |
| Dreamful dignity of death | H |
| Back to your own land's sweet breast | G |
| Come ye home lads home to rest ' | - |
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| Listening in my old bush shanty | G |
| Said grey Digger living's scanty | G |
| These dark days for won out soldiers and I'd not the luck of some | I |
| But from out the ether coming | C |
| I could hear a vast crowd's humming | C |
| Hear the singing then the Silence And I knew the Hour had come | I |
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| Listening silent as I waited | G |
| And the picture recreated | G |
| I could see the kneeling thousands by the Shrine's approaches there | J |
| Then above those heads low bending | C |
| Like an orison ascending | C |
| Saw a multitude's great yearning rise into the quivering air | J |
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| Listening so again the seeming | C |
| Of a vision came and dreaming | C |
| There I saw from out high Heaven spread above the great Shrine's dome | F |
| From the wide skies overarching | C |
| I beheld battalions marching | C |
| Mates of mine My comrades singing Coming home Coming home | F |
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| 'We who bore the cost of glory | G |
| We who paid the price of peace | K |
| Now that from this earth war's story | G |
| Shall please God for ever cease | K |
| To this Shrine that you have lifted | G |
| For a symbol and a sign | L |
| Of men's hearts come we who drifted | G |
| Thro' long years oh mates of mine | L |
| To earth my brothers' grieving blest | G |
| Now come we home lads home to rest ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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