Poet Henry Lawson

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Above Eurunderee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII CCJJFF KKLLFF

There are scenes in the distance where beauty is notA
On the desolate flats where gaunt appletrees rotA
Where the brooding old ridge rises up to the breezeB
From his dark lonely gullies of stringy bark treesB
There are voice haunted gaps ever sullen and strangeC
But Eurunderee lies like a gem in the rangeC
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Still I see in my fancy the dark green and blueD
Of the box covered hills where the five corners grewD
And the rugged old sheoaks that sighed in the bendE
O'er the lily decked pools where the dark ridges endE
And the scrub covered spurs running down from the PeakF
To the deep grassy banks of Eurunderee CreekF
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On the knolls where the vineyards and fruit gardens areG
There's a beauty that even the drought cannot marG
For I noticed it oft in the days that are lostH
As I trod on the siding where lingered the frostH
When the shadows of night from the gullies were goneI
And the hills in the background were flushed by the dawnI
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I was there in late years but there's many a changeC
Where the Cudgegong River flows down through the rangeC
For the curse of the town with the railroad had comeJ
And the goldfields were dead And the girl and the chumJ
And the old home were gone yet the oaks seemed to speakF
Of the hazy old days on Eurunderee CreekF
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And I stood by that creek ere the sunset grew coldK
When the leaves of the sheoaks are traced on the goldK
And I thought of old things and I thought of old folksL
Till I sighed in my heart to the sigh of the oaksL
For the years waste away like the waters that leakF
Through the pebbles and sand of Eurunderee CreekF

Henry Lawson



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