The Christ Of The 'never' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIJI KLKLMNMN AOAOKAKA PQKQ| With eyes that are narrowed to pierce | A |
| To the awful horizons of land | B |
| Through the blaze of hot days and the fierce | A |
| White heat waves that flow on the sand | B |
| Through the Never Land westward and nor'ward | C |
| Bronzed bearded and gaunt on the track | D |
| Low voiced and hard knuckled rides forward | E |
| The Christ of the Outer Out back | D |
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| For the cause that will ne'er be relinquished | F |
| Despite all the cynics on earth | G |
| In the ranks of the bush undistinguished | F |
| By manner or dress if by birth | G |
| God's preacher of churches unheeded | H |
| God's vineyard though barren the sod | I |
| Plain spokesman where spokesman is needed | J |
| Rough link 'twixt the bushman and God | I |
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| He works where the hearts of a nation | K |
| Are withered in flame from the sky | L |
| Where the sinners work out their salvation | K |
| In a hell upon earth ere they die | L |
| In the camp or the lonely hut lying | M |
| In a waste that seems out of God's sight | N |
| He's the doctor the mate of thee dying | M |
| Through the smothering heat of the night | N |
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| By his work in the hells of the shearers | A |
| Where the drinking is ghastly and grim | O |
| Where the roughest and worst of his hearers | A |
| Have listened bareheaded to him | O |
| By his paths through the parched desolation | K |
| Hot rides and the long terrible tramps | A |
| By the hunger the thirst the privation | K |
| Of his work in the farthermost camps | A |
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| By his worth in the light that shall search men | P |
| And prove ay and justify each | Q |
| I place him in front of all churchmen | K |
| Who feel not who know not but preach | Q |
Henry Lawson
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