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Because he had sinned and suffered because he loved the land	A
And because of his wonderful sympathy he held men s hearts in his hand	A
Born and bred of the people he knew their every whim	B
And because he had struggled through poverty he could draw the poor to him	B
Speaker and leader and poet tall and handsome and strong	C
With the eyes of a dog for faith and truth that blazed at the thought of a wrong	C
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They thought in his country s crisis that his time had come at last	D
For they measured his brilliant future by the light of his brilliant past	D
At every monster meeting the thousands called his name	E
And a burst of triumphant cheering greeted him when he came	E
They had faith in the strength of a single man when their fighting lines were weak	F
And a pregnant silence fell on all whenever he rose to speak	F
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But just when his power was greatest and the people s cause went well	G
And just as they needed their leader most the leader stumbled and fell	G
And his pitiful rivals exulted for they thought that his star had set	H
And the hearts of the people who worshipped him were filled with a keen regret	H
The cowardly sneer was printed and whispered the shameful word	I
And the scandal was heard by thousands the world and a bad girl heard	I
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Down in the frowsy alley in a dark and narrow room	J
On a mattress the shattered drunkard lay ghastly in his gloom	J
And the bad girl nursed him and kept him from the drink for which he craved	K
And she gave him broth and she watched him and she soothed him when he raved	K
For she d heard the boast of his rivals and had sworn to lift him above	L
And by day and by night she held him with the strength of a woman s love	L
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They were holding a monster meeting and the hour was close at hand	A
When his rivals would be triumphant and bad laws rule the land	A
His people swayed and wavered and scattered like storm swept birds	M
For they needed his magical presence and the sound of his burning words	M
But he heard the Drums of the Alley and the feeble answering cheer	N
And he felt the strength to his limbs return and his brain grow cool and clear	N
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He rose and the bad girl dressed him well in the den where the lights were dim	B
And her eyes grew bright as an angel s might for she knew the strength in him	B
They had sneered when his name was mentioned in the hall with lights aglare	N
But the crowd surged back to the platform when twas whispered that he was there	N
Like the cry of a crowd from a sinking ship his people called his name	E
And gaunt and white but with eyes alight with the fire of old he came	E
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He spoke of the shameful sacrifice of the land where he was born	O
Spoke with the burning words of truth and the withering words of scorn	O
He spoke as he never had done before and his rivals were stricken dumb	P
For the little men knew their master and they knew that he had come	P
His song of salvation went through the land in a loud triumphant strain	Q
He held them all in the palm of his hand and he was a king again	R
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So a man might fall to the gutter though he be a king of men	R
But a man might rise from the gutter with the strength of ten times ten	R
And the people s poet and leader for a long time led them all	S
Wiser because of his weakness and stronger because of the fall	S
They found the girl in the river the river that flowed by the town	T
She died that her spirit might strengthen him where her love would drag him down	T

Henry Lawson

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