New Guinea "converts." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEEE FGBH IJKJ LMNM OPQR STSM MUBU| I saw them as they were born | A |
| Erect and fearless and free | B |
| Facing the sun and the wind | C |
| Of the hills and the sea | B |
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| I saw them naked superb | D |
| Like the Greeks long ago | E |
| With shield and spear and arrow | E |
| Ready to strike and throw | E |
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| I saw them as they were made | F |
| By the Christianizing crows | G |
| Blinking stupid clumsy | B |
| In their greasy ill cut clothes | H |
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| I heard their gibbering cant | I |
| And they sung those hymns that smell | J |
| Of poor souls besotted degraded | K |
| With the fear of God and hell | J |
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| And I thought if Jesus could see them | L |
| He who loved the freedom the light | M |
| And loathed those who compassed heaven | N |
| And earth for one proselyte | M |
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| To make him etcetera etcetera | O |
| Then this sight as on me or you | P |
| Would act on him like an emetic | Q |
| And he'd have to go off and spue | R |
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| O Jesus O man of the People | S |
| Who died to abolish all this | T |
| The pharisee rank and respectable | S |
| The scribe and the greedy priest | M |
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| O Jesus O sacred Socialist | M |
| You would die again of shame | U |
| If you were alive and could see | B |
| What things are done in your name | U |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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