Edward Harrington

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The Bush Rangers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDE CC FFGGHH IIJJKK LLHHCC FFKKAA

Four horseman rode out from the heart of the rangeA
Four horseman with aspects forbidding and strangeA
They were booted and spurred they were armed to the teethB
And they frowned as they looked at the valley beneathB
As forward they rode through the rocks and the fernC
Ned Kelly Dan Kelly Steve Hart and Joe ByrneC
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Ned Kelly drew rein and he shaded his eyesD
'The town's at our mercy See yonder it liesD
To hell with the troopers ' he shook his clenched fistE
'We will shoot them like dogs if they dare to resist '-
And all of them nodded grim visaged and sternC
Ned Kelly Dan Kelly Steve Hart and Joe ByrneC
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Through the gullies and creeks they rode silently downF
They stuck up the station and raided the townF
They opened the safe and they looted the bankG
They laughed and were merry they ate and they drankG
Then off to the ranges they went with their goldH
Oh never were bandits more reckless and boldH
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But time brings its punishment time travels fastI
And the outlaws were trapped in Glenrowan at lastI
Where three of them died in the smoke and the flameJ
And Ned Kelly came back to the last he was gameJ
But the Law shot him down he was fated to hangK
And that was the end of the bushranging gangK
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Whatever their faults and whatever their crimesL
Their deeds lend romance to those faraway timesL
They have gone from the gullies they haunted of oldH
And nobody knows where they buried their goldH
To the ranges they loved they will never returnC
Ned Kelly Dan Kelly Steve Hart and Joe ByrneC
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But at times when I pass through that sleepy old townF
Where the far distant peaks of Strathbogie look downF
I think of the days when those grim ranges rangK
To the galloping hooves of the bushranging gangK
Though the years bring oblivion time brings a changeA
The ghosts of the Kellys still ride from the rangeA

Edward Harrington



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