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Joseph Jones and Peter Dawking	A
Strove in an election fight	B
And you'd think to hear them talking	A
Each upheld the people's right	B
Each declared he stood for Progress and against his country's foes	C
When he sought their votes at Wombat where the Muddy River flows	C
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Peter Dawking scorning party	D
As an Independent ran	E
Joseph Jones loud blatant hearty	D
Was a solid party man	E
But the electors up at Wombat vowed to him alone they'd stick	A
Who would give his sacred promise for the 'bridge across the crick'	A
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Bland unfaithful politicians	F
Long had said this bridge should be	D
Some soared on to high positions	F
Some sank to obscurity	D
Still the bridge had been denied it by its unrelenting foes	C
By the foes of patient Wombat where the Muddy River flows	C
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Up at Wombat Peter Dawking	A
Held a meeting in the hall	G
And he'd spent an hour in talking	A
On the far flung Empire's Call	G
When a local greybeard rising smote him with this verbal brick	A
'Are or are yeh not in favour of the bridge across the crick '	-
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Peter just ignored the question	H
Proudly patriotic man	E
Understand a mean suggestion	H
Men like Peter never can	E
Or that free enlightened voters look on all Great Things as rot	I
While a Burning Local Question fires each local patriot	J
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Joseph Jones serene and smiling	A
Took all Wombat to his heart	K
'Ah ' he said his 'blood was b'iling'	A
He declared it 'made him smart'	K
To reflect how they'd been swindled and he cried in ringing tones	L
'Gentlemen your bridge is certain if you cast your votes for Jones '	-
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Joseph Jones and Peter Dawking	A
Strove in an election fight	K
And when they had finished talking	A
On the great election night	K
They stood level in the voting and the hope of friends and foes	C
Hung upon the box from Wombat where the Muddy River flows	C
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Then the Wombat votes were counted	K
Jones two hundred Dawking three	D
Joseph proud and smiling mounted	K
On a public balcony	D
And his friends were shrill with triumph for that contest shrewdly run	H
In the House gave Jones's Party a majority of one	H
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Jones's Party note the sequel	M
Rules that country of the Free	D
And the fight so nearly equal	M
Swayed the whole land's destiny	D
And the Big Things of the Nation are delayed till Hope grows sick	A
Offered up as sacrifices to 'the bridge across the crick'	A
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Dawking now is sadly fearing	A
For the crowd's intelligence	N
Joseph skilled in engineering	A
Full of pomp and sly pretence	N
Still holds out the pleasing promise of that bridge whene'er he goes	N
Up to Wombat patient Wombat where the Muddy River flows	N

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

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