The God-forgotten Election Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFAAAA GDHDDADA IJIJAAAA AKAKAAAA DDDDIAIA LDLDCACA MDHDDADAPat M'Durmer brought the tidings to the town of God Forgotten | A |
There are lively days before ye commin Parlymint s dissolved | B |
And the boys were all excited for the State of course was rotten | A |
And in subsequent elections God Forgotten was involved | B |
There was little there to live for save in drinking beer and eating | C |
But we rose on this occasion ere the news appeared in print | D |
For the boys of God Forgotten at a wild uproarious meeting | C |
Nominated Billy Blazes for the commin Parlymint | D |
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Other towns had other favourites but the day before the battle | E |
Bushmen flocked to God Forgotten and the distant sheds were still | F |
Sheep were left to go to glory and neglected mobs of cattle | E |
Went a straying down the river at their sweet bucolic will | F |
William Spouter stood for Freetrade and his votes were split by Nottin | A |
He had influence behind him and he also had the tin | A |
But across the lonely flatlands came the cry of God Forgotten | A |
Vote for Blazes and Protection and the land you re living in | A |
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Pat M Durmer said Ye schaymers please to shut yer ugly faces | G |
Lend yer dirty ears a momint while I give ye all a hint | D |
Keep ye sober till to morrow and record yer vote for Blazes | H |
If ye want to send a ringer to the commin Parlymint | D |
As a young and growin township God Forgotten s been neglected | D |
And if we d be ripresinted now s the moment to begin | A |
Have the local towns encouraged local industries purtected | D |
Vote for Blazes and Protection and the land ye re livin in | A |
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I don t say that William Blazes is a perfect out an outer | I |
I don t say he have the larnin for he never had the luck | J |
I don t say he have the logic or the gift of gab like Spouter | I |
I don t say he have the practice BUT I SAY HE HAVE THE PLUCK | J |
Now the country s gone to ruin and the Governments are rotten | A |
But he ll save the public credit and purtect the public tin | A |
To the iverlastin glory of the name of God Forgotten | A |
Vote for Blazes and Protection and the land ye re livin in | A |
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Pat M D went on the war path and he worked like salts and senna | A |
For he organised committees full of energy and push | K |
And those wild committees riding through the whisky fed Gehenna | A |
Routed out astonished voters from their humpies in the bush | K |
Everything on wheels was rinted and half sobered drunks were shot in | A |
Said M Durmer to the driver If ye want to save yer skin | A |
Never stop to wet yer whistles drive like hell to God Forgotten | A |
Make the villains plump for Blazes and the land they re livin in | A |
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Half the local long departed for the purpose resurrected | D |
Plumped for Blazes and Protection and the country where they died | D |
So he topped the poll by sixty and when Blazes was elected | D |
There was victory and triumph on the God Forgotten side | D |
Then the boys got up a banquet and our chairman Pat M Durmer | I |
Was next day discovered sleeping in the local baker s bin | A |
All the dough had risen round him but we heard a smothered murmur | I |
Vote for Blazes and Protection and the land ye re livin in | A |
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Now the great Sir William Blazes lives in London cross the waters | L |
And they say his city mansion is the swellest in West End | D |
But I very often wonder if his torey sons and daughters | L |
Ever heard of Billy Blazes who was once the people s friend | D |
Does his biassed memory linger round that wild electioneering | C |
When the men of God Forgotten stuck to him through thick and thin | A |
Does he ever in his dreaming hear the cry above the cheering | C |
Vote for Blazes and Protection and the land you re livin in | A |
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Ah the bush was grand in those days and the Western boys were daisies | M |
And their scheming and their dodging would outdo the wildest print | D |
Still my recollection lingers round the time when Billy Blazes | H |
Was returned by God Forgotten to the Commin Parlymint | D |
Still I keep a sign of canvas twas a mate of mine that made it | D |
And its paint is cracked and powdered and its threads are bare and thin | A |
Yet upon its grimy surface you can read in letters faded | D |
Vote for Blazes and Protection and the land you re livin in | A |
Henry Lawson
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