The God-forgotten Election Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Pat M'Durmer brought the tidings to the town of God ForgottenA
There are lively days before ye commin Parlymint s dissolvedB
And the boys were all excited for the State of course was rottenA
And in subsequent elections God Forgotten was involvedB
There was little there to live for save in drinking beer and eatingC
But we rose on this occasion ere the news appeared in printD
For the boys of God Forgotten at a wild uproarious meetingC
Nominated Billy Blazes for the commin ParlymintD
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Other towns had other favourites but the day before the battleE
Bushmen flocked to God Forgotten and the distant sheds were stillF
Sheep were left to go to glory and neglected mobs of cattleE
Went a straying down the river at their sweet bucolic willF
William Spouter stood for Freetrade and his votes were split by NottinA
He had influence behind him and he also had the tinA
But across the lonely flatlands came the cry of God ForgottenA
Vote for Blazes and Protection and the land you re living inA
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Pat M Durmer said Ye schaymers please to shut yer ugly facesG
Lend yer dirty ears a momint while I give ye all a hintD
Keep ye sober till to morrow and record yer vote for BlazesH
If ye want to send a ringer to the commin ParlymintD
As a young and growin township God Forgotten s been neglectedD
And if we d be ripresinted now s the moment to beginA
Have the local towns encouraged local industries purtectedD
Vote for Blazes and Protection and the land ye re livin inA
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I don t say that William Blazes is a perfect out an outerI
I don t say he have the larnin for he never had the luckJ
I don t say he have the logic or the gift of gab like SpouterI
I don t say he have the practice BUT I SAY HE HAVE THE PLUCKJ
Now the country s gone to ruin and the Governments are rottenA
But he ll save the public credit and purtect the public tinA
To the iverlastin glory of the name of God ForgottenA
Vote for Blazes and Protection and the land ye re livin inA
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Pat M D went on the war path and he worked like salts and sennaA
For he organised committees full of energy and pushK
And those wild committees riding through the whisky fed GehennaA
Routed out astonished voters from their humpies in the bushK
Everything on wheels was rinted and half sobered drunks were shot inA
Said M Durmer to the driver If ye want to save yer skinA
Never stop to wet yer whistles drive like hell to God ForgottenA
Make the villains plump for Blazes and the land they re livin inA
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Half the local long departed for the purpose resurrectedD
Plumped for Blazes and Protection and the country where they diedD
So he topped the poll by sixty and when Blazes was electedD
There was victory and triumph on the God Forgotten sideD
Then the boys got up a banquet and our chairman Pat M DurmerI
Was next day discovered sleeping in the local baker s binA
All the dough had risen round him but we heard a smothered murmurI
Vote for Blazes and Protection and the land ye re livin inA
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Now the great Sir William Blazes lives in London cross the watersL
And they say his city mansion is the swellest in West EndD
But I very often wonder if his torey sons and daughtersL
Ever heard of Billy Blazes who was once the people s friendD
Does his biassed memory linger round that wild electioneeringC
When the men of God Forgotten stuck to him through thick and thinA
Does he ever in his dreaming hear the cry above the cheeringC
Vote for Blazes and Protection and the land you re livin inA
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Ah the bush was grand in those days and the Western boys were daisiesM
And their scheming and their dodging would outdo the wildest printD
Still my recollection lingers round the time when Billy BlazesH
Was returned by God Forgotten to the Commin ParlymintD
Still I keep a sign of canvas twas a mate of mine that made itD
And its paint is cracked and powdered and its threads are bare and thinA
Yet upon its grimy surface you can read in letters fadedD
Vote for Blazes and Protection and the land you re livin inA

Henry Lawson



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