Men Of Australia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFEGEG CGCGGHIH GEGEGJGA IGIGKLKL| Men of all the lands Australian from the Gulf to Derwent River | A |
| From the Heads of Sydney Harbour to the waters of the West | B |
| There s a spirit loudly calling where the saplings dip and quiver | A |
| Where the city crowds are thronging and the range uplifts its crest | B |
| Do ye feel the holy fervour of a new born exultation | C |
| For the task the Lord has set us is a trust of noblest pride | D |
| We are named to march unblooded to the winning of a nation | C |
| And to crown her with a glory that may evermore abide | D |
| Have ye looked to great old nations have ye wondered at their making | E |
| Seen their fair and gracious cities gemmed with palaces of light | F |
| Felt the pulse of mighty engines beating ever never slaking | E |
| Like the sandalled feet of Progress moving onward in the night | F |
| Can ye stand on some high headland when the drowsy day is fading | E |
| And in dreamlike fancy see a merchant fleet upon the seas | G |
| See the pinioned ships majestic gainst the purple even sailing | E |
| And the busy steamers racing down to half a thousand quays | G |
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| Have ye dreamed of this or seen of this and feel ye no elation | C |
| O er the most heroic duty that a free born people knows | G |
| To the chain of kindred nations ours to link another nation | C |
| Ours to stay and build and bless her for a future great as those | G |
| Cold and sordid hearts may linger still to bargain over trifles | G |
| But the big souled men have only hate for huckstering and sloth | H |
| These would batter down division tear away the bonds that stifle | I |
| And would free our dear Australia for the larger nobler growth | H |
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| Bushmen roaming on the ridges tracking colours to their sources | G |
| Swinging axes by the rivers where the millsaws rend and shriek | E |
| Smoking thoughtful pipes or dreaming on your slow untroubled horses | G |
| While the lazy cattle feed along the track or ford the creek | E |
| Ye have known our country s moods in all her wild and desert places | G |
| Ye have felt the sweet strange promptings that her solitudes inspire | J |
| To have breathed the spirit of her is to love her turn your faces | G |
| Ride like lovers when the day dawns ride to serve her son and sire | A |
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| Miners in the dripping workings farmers pioneers who settle | I |
| On the bush lands city workers of the benches and the marts | G |
| Swart mechanics at the forges beating out the glowing metal | I |
| Thinkers planners if ye feel the love of country stir your hearts | G |
| Help to write the bravest chapter of a fair young nation s story | K |
| Great she ll be as Europe s greatest more magnificent in truth | L |
| That our children s children standing in the rose light of her glory | K |
| May all honour us who loved her and who crowned her in her youth | L |
Edward George Dyson
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