The Triumph Of The People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDBB BBBB BBBB| LO the gods of Vice and Mammon from their pinnacles are hurled | A |
| By the workers new religion which is oldest in the world | A |
| And the earth will feel her children treading firmly on the sod | B |
| For the triumph of the People is the victory of God | B |
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| Not the victory of Churches nor of Punishment and Wrath | C |
| Not the triumph of the sceptic throwing shadows on the path | C |
| But of Christ and love and mercy o er the Monarch and the Rod | B |
| For the harvest of the Saviour is the aftermath of God | B |
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| O the Light of Revelation since the reign of Care began | D |
| Has been shining through the ages on the darkened eyes of man | D |
| And the willing slave of Error he is senseless as a clod | B |
| For the simple Book of Nature is the written scroll of God | B |
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| Who will dare to say the sunlight on the pregnant Earth was shed | B |
| That the few might rest and fatten while the many fight for bread | B |
| Lo there springs a common garden where the foot of Greed hath trod | B |
| For the victory of Labour was the prophecy of God | B |
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| Mother Earth in coming seasons shall fulfil her motherhood | B |
| Then the children of her bosom never more shall want for food | B |
| And oppression shall no longer grind the people iron shod | B |
| For the lifted hand of Labour is the upraised hand of God | B |
Henry Lawson
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