Wide Lies Australia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC CBCBBABA DEDEFGFG| Wide lies Australia The seas that surround her | A |
| Flow for her unity all states in one | B |
| Never has Custom nor Tyranny bound her | A |
| Never was conquest so peacefully won | B |
| Fair lies Australia with all things within her | A |
| Meet for a Nation the greatest to be | C |
| Free to the White Man to woo and to win her | A |
| Those who'd be happy and those who'd be free | C |
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| Free to live fully and free to live cleanly | C |
| Free to give learning to daughter and son | B |
| Free to act nobly but not to act meanly | C |
| Free to forget what the old lands had done | B |
| Free to be Brothers Our hymn and our sermon | B |
| To keep for the White World the balance of Power | A |
| Welcoming all be they British or German | B |
| All come to help us we'll wait for the hour | A |
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| Out in the West where the flood water gathers | D |
| Out in the drought on the sand desert lone | E |
| Went the brave English and brave foreign fathers | D |
| Fearlessly facing the fearful unknown | E |
| Gemmed with their names lies the great past behind us | F |
| Dark lie the storm clouds before us today | G |
| Let us so live the future shall find us | F |
| Facing the danger as dauntless as they | G |
Henry Lawson
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