When The `army' Prays For Watty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL| When the kindly hours of darkness save for light of moon and star | A |
| Hide the picture on the signboard over Doughty's Horse Bazaar | A |
| When the last rose tint is fading on the distant mulga scrub | B |
| Then the Army prays for Watty at the entrance of his pub | B |
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| Now I often sit at Watty's when the night is very near | C |
| With a head that's full of jingles and the fumes of bottled beer | C |
| For I always have a fancy that if I am over there | D |
| When the Army prays for Watty I'm included in the prayer | D |
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| Watty lounges in his arm chair in its old accustomed place | E |
| With a fatherly expression on his round and passive face | E |
| And his arms are clasped before him in a calm contented way | F |
| And he nods his head and dozes when he hears the Army pray | F |
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| And I wonder does he ponder on the distant years and dim | G |
| Or his chances over yonder when the Army prays for him | G |
| Has he not a fear connected with the warm place down below | H |
| Where according to good Christians all the publicans should go | H |
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| But his features give no token of a feeling in his breast | I |
| Save of peace that is unbroken and a conscience well at rest | I |
| And we guzzle as we guzzled long before the Army came | J |
| And the loafers wait for shouters' and they get there just the same | J |
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| It would take a lot of praying lots of thumping on the drum | K |
| To prepare our sinful straying erring souls for Kingdom Come | K |
| But I love my fellow sinners and I hope upon the whole | L |
| That the Army gets a hearing when it prays for Watty's soul | L |
Henry Lawson
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