The Sydney International Exhibition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKDDLLMMNOPPQQIIRSII TTUUIIVVDDSSEE WWXXBBYYDDZZCCIIA2B2 BB C2C2D2D2E2F2G2G2PPBB C2C2QQH2H2BBI2I2HHII J2J2IIC2K2L2L2IIQQBB A2A2BBL2L2EETTM2N2HH O2O2I2I2BBPPP2P2VVFF DD Q2Q2BBI2I2EEBBR2R2CC HHBBC2C2YYS2S2I2I2II BBMMWWS2S2C2DNow while Orion flaming south doth set | A |
A shining foot on hills of wind and wet | A |
Far haughty hills beyond the fountains cold | B |
And dells of glimmering greenness manifold | B |
While August sings the advent of the Spring | C |
And in the calm is heard September s wing | C |
The lordly voice of song I ask of thee | D |
High deathless radiance crowned Calliope | D |
What though we never hear the great god s lays | E |
Which made all music the Hellenic days | E |
What though the face of thy fair heaven beams | F |
Still only on the crystal Grecian streams | F |
What though a sky of new strange beauty shines | G |
Where no white Dryad sings within the pines | G |
Here is a land whose large imperial grace | H |
Must tempt thee goddess in thine holy place | H |
Here are the dells of peace and plenilune | I |
The hills of morning and the slopes of noon | I |
Here are the waters dear to days of blue | J |
And dark green hollows of the noontide dew | J |
Here lies the harp by fragrant wood winds fanned | K |
That waits the coming of thy quickening hand | K |
And shall Australia framed and set in sea | D |
August with glory wait in vain for thee | D |
Shall more than Tempe s beauty be unsung | L |
Because its shine is strange its colours young | L |
No by the full live light which puts to shame | M |
The far fair splendours of Thessalian flame | M |
By yonder forest psalm which sinks and swells | N |
Like that of Phocis grave with oracles | O |
By deep prophetic winds that come and go | P |
Where whispering springs of pondering mountains flow | P |
By lute like leaves and many languaged caves | Q |
Where sounds the strong hosanna of the waves | Q |
This great new majesty shall not remain | I |
Unhonoured by the high immortal strain | I |
Soon soon the music of the southern lyre | R |
Shall start and blossom with a speech like fire | S |
Soon soon shall flower and flow in flame divine | I |
Thy songs Apollo and Euterpe thine | I |
Strong shining sons of Delphicus shall rise | T |
With all their father s glory in their eyes | T |
And then shall beam on yonder slopes and springs | U |
The light that swims upon the light of things | U |
And therefore lingering in a land of lawn | I |
I standing here a singer of the dawn | I |
With gaze upturned to where wan summits lie | V |
Against the morning flowing up the sky | V |
Whose eyes in dreams of many colours see | D |
A glittering vision of the years to be | D |
Do ask of thee Calliope one hour | S |
Of life pre eminent with perfect power | S |
That I may leave a song whose lonely rays | E |
May shine hereafter from these songless days | E |
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For now there breaks across the faint grey range | W |
The rose red dawning of a radiant change | W |
A soft sweet voice is in the valleys deep | X |
Where darkness droops and sings itself to sleep | X |
The grave mute woods that yet the silence hold | B |
Of dim dead ages gleam with hints of gold | B |
Yon eastern cape that meets the straitened wave | Y |
A twofold tower above the whistling cave | Y |
Whose strength in thunder shields the gentle lea | D |
And makes a white wrath of a league of sea | D |
Now wears the face of peace and in the bay | Z |
The weak spent voice of Winter dies away | Z |
In every dell there is a whispering wing | C |
On every lawn a glimmer of the Spring | C |
By every hill are growths of tender green | I |
On every slope a fair new life is seen | I |
And lo beneath the morning s blossoming fires | A2 |
The shining city of a hundred spires | B2 |
In mists of gold by countless havens furled | B |
And glad with all the flags of all the world | B |
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These are the shores where in a dream of fear | C2 |
Cathay saw darkness dwelling half the year | C2 |
These are the coasts that old fallacious tales | D2 |
Chained down with ice and ringed with sleepless gales | D2 |
This is the land that in the hour of awe | E2 |
From Indian peaks the rapt Venetian saw | F2 |
Here is the long grey line of strange sea wall | G2 |
That checked the prow of the audacious Gaul | G2 |
What time he steered towards the southern snow | P |
From zone to zone four hundred years ago | P |
By yonder gulf whose marching waters meet | B |
The wine dark currents from the isles of heat | B |
Strong sons of Europe in a far dim year | C2 |
Faced ghastly foes and felt the alien spear | C2 |
There in a later dawn by shipless waves | Q |
The tender grasses found forgotten graves | Q |
Far in the west beyond those hills sublime | H2 |
Dirk Hartog anchored in the olden time | H2 |
There by a wild faced bay and in a cleft | B |
His shining name the fair haired Northman left | B |
And on those broad imperial waters far | I2 |
Beneath the lordly occidental star | I2 |
Sailed Tasman down a great and glowing space | H |
Whose softer lights were like his lady s face | H |
In dreams of her he roved from zone to zone | I |
And gave her lovely name to coasts unknown | I |
And saw in streaming sunset everywhere | J2 |
The curious beauty of her golden hair | J2 |
By flaming tracts of tropic afternoon | I |
Where in low heavens hangs a fourfold moon | I |
Here on the tides of a resplendent year | C2 |
By capes of jasper came the buccaneer | K2 |
Then then the wild men flying from the beach | L2 |
First heard the clear bold sounds of English speech | L2 |
And then first fell across a Southern plain | I |
The broad strong shadows of a Saxon train | I |
Near yonder wall of stately cliff that braves | Q |
The arrogance of congregated waves | Q |
The daring son of grey old Yorkshire stood | B |
And dreamed in a majestic solitude | B |
What time a gentle April shed its showers | A2 |
Aflame with sunset on the Bay of Flowers | A2 |
The noble seaman who withheld the hand | B |
And spared the Hector of his native land | B |
The single savage yelling on the beach | L2 |
The dark strange curses of barbaric speech | L2 |
Exalted sailor whose benignant phrase | E |
Shines full of beauty in these latter days | E |
Who met the naked tribes of fiery skies | T |
With great divine compassion in his eyes | T |
Who died like Him of hoary Nazareth | M2 |
That death august the radiant martyr s death | N2 |
Who in the last hour showed the Christian face | H |
Whose crumbling beauty shamed the alien race | H |
In peace he sleeps where deep eternal calms | O2 |
Lie round the land of heavy fruited palms | O2 |
Lo in that dell behind a singing bar | I2 |
Where deep pure pools of glittering waters are | I2 |
Beyond a mossy yellow gleaming glade | B |
The last of Forby Sutherland was laid | B |
The blue eyed Saxon from the hills of snow | P |
Who fell asleep a hundred years ago | P |
In flowerful shades where gold and green are rife | P2 |
Still rests the shell of his forgotten life | P2 |
Far far away beneath some northern sky | V |
The fathers of his humble household lie | V |
But by his lonely grave are sapphire streams | F |
And gracious woodlands where the fire fly gleams | F |
And ever comes across a silver lea | D |
The hymn sublime of the eternal sea | D |
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On that bold hill against a broad blue stream | Q2 |
Stood Arthur Phillip in a day of dream | Q2 |
What time the mists of morning westward rolled | B |
And heaven flowered on a bay of gold | B |
Here in the hour that shines and sounds afar | I2 |
Flamed first old England s banner like a star | I2 |
Here in a time august with prayer and praise | E |
Was born the nation of these splendid days | E |
And here this land s majestic yesterday | B |
Of immemorial silence died away | B |
Where are the woods that ninety summers back | R2 |
Stood hoar with ages by the water track | R2 |
Where are the valleys of the flashing wing | C |
The dim green margins and the glimmering spring | C |
Where now the warrior of the forest race | H |
His glaring war paint and his fearless face | H |
The banks of April and the groves of bird | B |
The glades of silence and the pools unstirred | B |
The gleaming savage and the whistling spear | C2 |
Passed with the passing of a wild old year | C2 |
A single torrent singing by the wave | Y |
A shadowy relic in a mountain cave | Y |
A ghost of fire in immemorial hills | S2 |
The whittled tree by folded wayside rills | S2 |
The call of bird that hides in hollows far | I2 |
Where feet of thunder wings of winter are | I2 |
Of all that Past these wrecks of wind and rain | I |
These touching memories these alone remain | I |
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What sun is this that beams and broadens west | B |
What wonder this in deathless glory dressed | B |
What strange sweet harp of highest god took flame | M |
And gave this Troy its life its light its name | M |
What awful lyre of marvellous power and range | W |
Upraised this Ilion wrought this dazzling change | W |
No shining singer of Hellenic dreams | S2 |
Set yonder splendour by the morning streams | S2 |
No god who glimmers in a doubtful sphere | C2 |
Shed gl | D |
Henry Kendall
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