Poet Henry Lawson

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The Christ Of The 'never' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIJI KLKLMNMN AOAOKAKA PQKQ

With eyes that are narrowed to pierceA
To the awful horizons of landB
Through the blaze of hot days and the fierceA
White heat waves that flow on the sandB
Through the Never Land westward and nor'wardC
Bronzed bearded and gaunt on the trackD
Low voiced and hard knuckled rides forwardE
The Christ of the Outer Out backD
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For the cause that will ne'er be relinquishedF
Despite all the cynics on earthG
In the ranks of the bush undistinguishedF
By manner or dress if by birthG
God's preacher of churches unheededH
God's vineyard though barren the sodI
Plain spokesman where spokesman is neededJ
Rough link 'twixt the bushman and GodI
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He works where the hearts of a nationK
Are withered in flame from the skyL
Where the sinners work out their salvationK
In a hell upon earth ere they dieL
In the camp or the lonely hut lyingM
In a waste that seems out of God's sightN
He's the doctor the mate of thee dyingM
Through the smothering heat of the nightN
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By his work in the hells of the shearersA
Where the drinking is ghastly and grimO
Where the roughest and worst of his hearersA
Have listened bareheaded to himO
By his paths through the parched desolationK
Hot rides and the long terrible trampsA
By the hunger the thirst the privationK
Of his work in the farthermost campsA
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By his worth in the light that shall search menP
And prove ay and justify eachQ
I place him in front of all churchmenK
Who feel not who know not but preachQ

Henry Lawson



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