Poet Henry Lawson

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The Lights Of Cobb & Co. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A A B B C D E E F F G G H H E E I I J J K K E E L L M M N N E E O O P P D D E E Q Q R R S S E E

Fire lighted on the table a meal for sleepy menA
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A lantern in the stable a jingle now and thenA
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The mail coach looming darkly by light on moon and starB
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The growl of sleepy voices a candle in the barB
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A stumble in the passage of folk with wits abroadC
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A swear word from a bedroom the shout of All aboardD
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Tekh tehk Git up Hold fast there and down the range we goE
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Five hundred miles of scattered camps will watch for Cobb and CoE
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Old coaching towns already decaying for their sinsF
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Uncounted Half way Houses and scores of Ten Mile InnsF
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The riders from the stations by lonely granite peaksG
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The black boy for the shepherds on sheep and cattle creeksG
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The roaring camps of Gulgong and many a Digger s RestH
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The diggers on the Lachlan the huts of Farthest WestH
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Some twenty thousand exiles who sailed for weal or woeE
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The bravest hearts of twenty lands will wait for Cobb and CoE
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The morning star has vanished the frost and fog are goneI
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In one of those grand mornings which but on mountains dawnI
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A flask of friendly whisky each other s hopes we shareJ
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And throw our top coats open to drink the mountain airJ
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The roads are rare to travel and life seems all completeK
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The grind of wheels on gravel the trop of horses feetK
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The trot trot trot and canter as down the spur we goE
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The green sweeps to horizons blue that call for Cobb and CoE
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We take a bright girl actress through western dust and dampsL
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To bear the home world message and sing for sinful campsL
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To stir our hearts and break them wind hearts that hope and acheM
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Ah When she thinks again of these her own must nearly breakM
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Five miles this side of the gold field a loud triumphant shoutN
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Five hundred cheering diggers have snatched the horses outN
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With Auld Lang Syne in chorus through roaring camp they goE
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That cheer for her and cheer for Home and cheer for Cobb and CoE
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Three lamps above the ridges and gorges dark and deepO
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A flash on sandstone cuttings where sheer the sidlings sweepO
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A flash on shrouded wagons on water ghastly whiteP
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Weird brush and scattered remnants of rushes in the nightP
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Across the swollen river a flash beyond the fordD
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Ride hard to warn the driver He s drunk or mad good LordD
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But on the bank to westward a broad and cheerful glowE
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New camps extend across the plains new routes for Cobb and CoE
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Swift scramble up the sidling where teams climb inch by inchQ
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Pause bird like on the summit then breakneck down the pinchQ
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By clear ridge country rivers and gaps where tracks run highR
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Where waits the lonely horseman cut clear against the skyR
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Past haunted half way houses where convicts made the bricksS
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Scrub yards and new bark shanties we dash with five and sixS
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Through stringy bark and blue gum and box and pine we goE
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A hundred miles shall see to night the lights of Cobb and CoE

Henry Lawson



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