From The Bush Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIJI KLMLKCNC OPQRSTKT UBJCNGVG| The Channel fog has lifted | A |
| And see where we have come | B |
| Round all the world we've drifted | A |
| A hundred years from home | C |
| The fields our parents longed for | D |
| Ah we shall ne'er know how | E |
| The wealth that they were wronged for | D |
| We'll see as strangers now | E |
| - | |
| The Dover cliffs have passed on | F |
| In the morning light aglow | G |
| That our fathers looked their last on | F |
| A weary time ago | G |
| Now grin and grin your bravest | H |
| We need be strong to fight | I |
| For you go home to picture | J |
| And I go home to write | I |
| - | |
| Hold up your head in England | K |
| Tread firm on London streets | L |
| We come from where the strong heart | M |
| Of all Australia beats | L |
| Hold up your head in England | K |
| However poor you roam | C |
| For no men are your betters | N |
| Who never sailed from home | C |
| - | |
| From a hundred years of hardships | O |
| 'Tis ours to tell the cost | P |
| From a thousand miles of silence | Q |
| Where London would be lost | R |
| From where the glorious sunset | S |
| On sweeps of mulga glows | T |
| Ah we know more than England | K |
| And more than Europe knows | T |
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| Hold up your head in London | U |
| However poor you come | B |
| For no man is your better | J |
| Who never sailed from home | C |
| Our home and foreign fathers | N |
| Where none but men dared go | G |
| Have done more for the White Man | V |
| Than England e'er shall know | G |
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