Foreign Lands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBDDBBEEB FFBB GGBBHHB IIBBJJB KKBBLLB MMBB| You may roam the wide seas over follow meet and cross the sun | A |
| Sail as far as ships can sail and travel far as trains can run | A |
| You may ride and tramp wherever range or plain or sea expands | B |
| But the crowd has been before you and you ll not find Foreign Lands | B |
| For the Early Days are over | C |
| And no more the white winged rover | C |
| Sinks the gale worn coast of England bound for bays in Foreign Lands | B |
| Foreign Lands are in the distance dim and dreamlike faint and far | D |
| Long ago and over yonder where our boyhood fancies are | D |
| For the land is by the railway cramped as though with iron bands | B |
| And the steamship and the cable did away with Foreign Lands | B |
| Ah the days of blue and gold | E |
| When the news was six months old | E |
| But the news was worth the telling in the days of Foreign Lands | B |
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| Here we slave the dull years hopeless for the sake of Wool and Wheat | F |
| Here the homes of ugly Commerce niggard farm and haggard street | F |
| Yet our mothers and our fathers won the life the heart demands | B |
| Less than fifty years gone over we were born in Foreign Lands | B |
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| When the gipsies stole the children still in village tale and song | G |
| And the world was wide to travel and the roving spirit strong | G |
| When they dreamed of South Sea Islands summer seas and coral strands | B |
| Then the bravest hearts of England sailed away to Foreign Lands | B |
| Fitting foreign flood and field | H |
| Half the world and orders sealed | H |
| And the first and best of Europe went to fight in Foreign Lands | B |
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| Canvas towers on the ocean homeward bound and outward bound | I |
| Glint of topsails over islands splash of anchors in the sound | I |
| Then they landed in the forests took their strong lives in their hands | B |
| And they fought and toiled and conquered making homes in Foreign Lands | B |
| Through the cold and through the drought | J |
| Further on and further out | J |
| Winning half the world for England in the wilds of Foreign Lands | B |
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| Love and pride of life inspired them when the simple village hearts | K |
| Followed Master Will and Harry gone abroad to furrin parts | K |
| By our townships and our cities and across the desert sands | B |
| Are the graves of those who fought and died for us in Foreign Lands | B |
| Gave their young lives for our sake | L |
| Was it all a grand mistake | L |
| Sons of Master Will and Harry born abroad in Foreign Lands | B |
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| Ah my girl our lives are narrow and in sordid days like these | M |
| I can hate the things that banished Foreign Lands across the seas | M |
| But with all the world before us God above us hearts and hands | B |
| I can sail the seas in fancy far away to Foreign Lands | B |
Henry Lawson
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