And The Bairns Will Come Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEC FFCC GGCC HHCC HHEC| So you ve seen at last what we have seen so long through scalding tears | A |
| You have found what we the People we have known for twenty years | B |
| And Australia s hymn is swelling till the furthest fence wires hum | C |
| Save your country Legislators and the bairns will come | C |
| You would put the blame upon us we are women we are men | D |
| And our fathers and our mothers gave the country nine and ten | D |
| They had honest work and wages and the ways to win a home | E |
| Give us half the chances they had and the bairns will come | C |
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| Try the ranks of wealth and fashion ask the rich and well to do | F |
| With their nurseries and their nurses and their children one and two | F |
| Will they help us bear the burden but their purse proud lips are dumb | C |
| Let us earn a decent living and the bairns will come | C |
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| Young men helpless in the city s wheel of greed that never stops | G |
| Tramp the streets for work while sweethearts slave in factories and shops | G |
| Shall they marry and bear children to their parents martyrdom | C |
| Make the city what it should be and the bairns will come | C |
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| Shall we give you sons and daughters to a life of never rest | H |
| Sacrificing all for nothing in the desert of the West | H |
| To be driven to the city s squalid suburb and the slum | C |
| Make the city what it should be and the bairns will come | C |
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| Don t you hear Australia calling for her children unconceived | H |
| Don t you hear them calling to her while her heart is very grieved | H |
| Give the best land to the farmers make the barren West a home | E |
| Save the rainfall lock the rivers and the bairns will come | C |
Henry Lawson
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