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The Captains sailed from all the World from all the world and Spain	A
And each one for his country s ease her glory and her gain	A
The Captains sailed to Southern Seas and sailed the Spanish Main	A
And some sailed out beyond the World and some sailed home again	B
And each one for his daily bread and bitter bread it was	C
Because of things they d left at home or for some other cause	C
Their wives and daughters made the lace to deck the Lady s gown	D
Where sailors wives sew dungarees by many a seaport town	D
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The Captains sailed in rotten ships with often rotten crews	E
Because their lands were ignorant and meaner than the ooze	E
With money furnished them by Greed or by ambition mean	F
When they had crawled to some pig faced pig hearted king or queen	F
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And when a storm was on the coast and spray leaped o er the quays	E
Then little Joan or Dorothy or Inez or Louise	E
Would kneel her down on such a night beside her mother s knees	E
And fold her little hands and pray for those beyond the seas	E
With the touching faith of little girls the faith by love embalmed	G
They d pray for men beyond the seas who might have been becalmed	G
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For some will pray at CHRIST His feet and some at MARY S shrine	H
And some to Heathen goddesses as I have prayed to mine	H
To Mecca or to Bethlehem to Fire or Joss or Sol	I
And one will pray to sticks or stones and one to her rag doll	I
But we are stubborn men and vain and though we rise or fall	J
Our children s prayers or women s prayers GOD knows we need them all	J
And no one fights the bitter gale or strives in combat grim	K
But somewhere in the world a child is praying hard for him	K
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The Captains sailed to India to China and Japan	L
They met the Strangers Welcome and the Friendliness of Man	L
The Captains sailed to Southern Seas and wondrous sights they saw	E
The Rights of Man in savage lands and law without a law	E
They learnt the truth from savages and wisdom from the wild	M
And learned to walk in unknown ways and trust them like a child	M
The sailors told of monstrous things that be where sailors roam	N
But none had seen more monstrous things than they had seen at home	N
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They found new worlds for crowded folk in cities old and worn	O
And huts of hunger fog and smoke in lands by Faction torn	O
They found the great and empty lands where Nations might be born	O
They found new foods they found new wealth and newer ways to live	P
Where sons might grow in strength and health with all that God would give	Q
They tracked their ways through unknown seas where Danger still remains	E
And sailed back poor and broken men and some sailed back in chains	E
But bound or free or ill or well where er their sails were furled	M
They brought to weary worn out lands glad tidings from the World	M
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The Seasons saw our fathers come their flocks and herds increase	E
They saw the old lands waste in War the new lands waste in Peace	E
The Seasons saw new gardens made they saw the old lands bleed	M
And into new lands introduced the curse of Class and Creed	M
They saw the birth of Politics and all was ripe for Greed	M
And Mammon came and built his towers and Mammon held the fort	M
Till one new land went dollar mad and one went mad for Sport	M
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Where men for love of Science sailed in rotten tubs for years	E
To hang or starve while nought availed a wife or daughter s tears	E
Where men made life long sacrifice for some blind Northern Power	R
Now Science sinks a thousand souls and sinks them in an hour	R
You would be rich and great too soon have all that mortal craves	E
The day may come ere you have lived when you ll be poor and slaves	E
You heeded not the warning voice for Self and Sport prevailed	M
You yet might wish in dust and dread those Captains had not sailed	M

Henry Lawson

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