Brighten-s Sister-in-law [or The Carrier's Story] Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Brighten-s Sister-in-law [or The Carrier's Story] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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AT A POINT where the old road crosses	A
The river and turns to the right	B
I d camped with the team and the hosses	A
Was all fixed up for the night	B
I d been to the town to carry	C
A load to the Cudgegong	D
And I d taken the youngster Harry	C
On a trip as I d promis d him long	D
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I had seven more and another	E
That died at the age of three	C
But they all took arter the mother	E
And Harry took arter me	C
And from the tiniest laddie	B
Twas always his fondest dream	F
To go on the roads with his daddy	B
And help him to drive the team	F
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He was bright at the school and clever	E
The best of the youngsters there	G
And the teacher said there was never	E
A lad that promised so fair	G
And I half forgot life s battle	H
An its long hard beaten road	B
In the sound of the youngster s prattle	H
From his perch on top o the load	B
	-
An when he was tired o ridin	I
I d lift him down for a walk	D
And he d say at my silence chidin	I
Now daddy tell me some talk	D
And oft by the camp fire sittin	I
When the bush was round us wild	B
I d yarn by the hour forgittin	I
That Harry was only a child	B
	-
But to day he d been strange and quiet	B
An lay on the chaff bags still	J
An though he d bravely deny it	B
I know d as the boy was ill	J
He said he was only dosey	A
In his queer old fashioned way	K
And I fixed him up warm an cosey	A
In the hammock under the dray	K
	-
I fried him some eggs and some bakin	I
Which I couldn t git him to touch	L
And it set my heart a achin	I
For he d always eaten so much	L
I wandered about half silly	A
And thought that my heart would stop	M
And the tea got cold in the billy	A
For I couldn t a tasted a drop	M
	-
I d seen the same sickness of en	I
An my spirits began to droop	N
For as soon as he started coughin	I
I know d as he d got the croup	N
Twas fifteen mile to the river	E
An Gulgong was twenty five	O
An I thought twas a chance if ever	E
I got him back home alive	O
	-
The thought of the loss was horrid	B
If the young un was taken away	K
And I went and leaned my forehead	B
Against the tire o the dray	K
And sudden I started cryin	I
And sobbed like a woman too	B
For I felt that the boy was dyin	I
And I didn t know what to do	B
	-
All helpless I was and lonely	A
But I thought twas a coward s cry	P
To call on the Saviour only	A
When trouble or death was nigh	P
But after a while I lifted	B
My eyes to the steely blue	B
Of the sky where somethin drifted	B
Like a great white cockatoo	B
	-
An nearer it came and nearer	E
Right down to the branch of the tree	A
And it seemed when its shape grew clearer	E
Like the form of a woman to me	A
For a moment it seemed to tarry	A
An p int away up the road	B
An then seemed pintin at Harry	A
A coughin beneath the load	B
	-
I don t want ter arger there s chances	A
The vision was only the sky	P
Or the smoke outlin d on the branches	A
Or a lonely cloud on high	P
But I says twas a message from glory	A
I sees as yer goin to chaff	Q
Just wait till I done my story	A
An laugh if yer want to laugh	Q
	-
Away went the vision flyin	I
Up into the blue it went	B
And I stood for a minute tryin	I
To think what its comin meant	B
When it flashed on my brain like lightnin	I
An arter I thought it strange	R
I d almost forgotten old Brighten	I
Who lived on the top of the range	R
	-
He lived on a small selection	I
Or used ter live there I know d	A
An it lay in a west direction	I
Bout five miles back from the road	B
I harnessed the horses quicker	E
Than ever I d taken em out	B
An they must a thought me in liquor	E
For the way as I shov d em about	B
	-
I d allers bin fond o sneerin	I
An laughin at women s ways	A
I could see in their lives I m fearin	I
But little as called for praise	A
But now when I thought he d smother	E
With croup in the lonely wild	B
Good God how I longed for a mother	E
To save the life of my child	B
	-
I seed in a vision each minit	B
The youngster nursed back into life	S
An the hand of a woman was in it	B
An the woman was Brighten s wife	S
There s times when not knowin a bliss is	A
As Harry s school teacher ud say	K
And I didn t know Brighten s missis	K
Had gone to the town that day	K
	-
In a moment I d lifted Harry	A
To the bags on top of the load	B
And I flogged the weary horses	K
Along on the dusty road	B
But ev rything seem d to hinder	E
My hopes when I reached the hut	B
For there wasn t a light in the winder	E
And both o the doors was shut	B
	-
That moment my heart got hurted	B
An I felt it for many a day	B
For I thought that the place was deserted	B
An Brighten had gone away	B
But I called and the door was opened	B
An I saw that the hut was alight	B
It hadn t shone in the winders	K
For the moon was shinin bright	B
	-
An there in the door with a candle	H
I saw old Brighten stand	B
With his fingers grasping the handle	H
Of a pistol he held in his hand	B
If any one moves he shouted	B
I ll fire if I ve got to hang	D
For the moment he never doubted	B
Twas a visit from Gard ner s gang	D
	-
I didn t move in a hurry	A
For a man in a fright shoots quick	D
But I told him he needn t flurry	A
Twas only a youngster sick	D
Stan back said old Brighten snatchin	I
An shuttin the door in his fright	B
It s typhoid maybe he s catchin	I
An I can t have him here to night	B
	-
But a woman s voice shouted What is it	B
I d never seen her before	T
She was only there on a visit	B
Twas Brighten s sister in law	U
An nothin seemed able to frighten	I
This woman so pale an thin	I
She pushed from the door old Brighten	I
An carried the youngster in	I
	-
She d bin hospital nurse in the city	A
I heard and had got the sack	D
For havin a little pity	A
An exposin a doctor quack	D
Some trumped up stories agin her	E
All over the town was belled	A
An in spite of the fightin in her	E
They got her at last expelled	A
	-
An talkin o fight I m fearin	I
There s sudden fightin in store	T
For the first as speaks in my hearin	I
Gin Brighten s sister in law	U
For in spite of old Brighten s cussin	I
She got the youngster to bed	A
And arter a week s good nussin	I
She won him back from the dead	A
	-
And then I began to hanker	E
For a speech to tell her the joy	V
I felt in my heart and to thank her	E
For givin me back my boy	V
The mornin I left old Brighten s	K
While puttin the horses to	A
I puzzled my brains to make up	W
A speech as I thought would do	A
	-
She lifted the youngster and kissed him	X
And helped him into the dray	B
An I thought of how I d a missed him	X
If he d only been taken away	B
An Mum I sez I oughter	B
An to finish the speech I tries	K
But all on a sudden the water	B
Kem bubblin up to my eyes	K
	-
An down ard like water courses	K
The tears began to tear	B
An I had to swear at the horses	K
To hide my weakness from her	B
But the tears was only human	I
An they seem d to ha done some good	A
For she pressed my hand like a woman	I
An said that she understood	A