Brunton Stephens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDCDEEE FFGHGHIIJ FFKLMLMMM MMNONPQQQ RRSTSTMMM HHUMUMVVV DDWHWHHHH HHXYZYQQQ A2B2DDDD DDD MMDC2DC2DDD D2D2E2DE2DDDDDedicated by special permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria | A |
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We cried How long We sighed Not yet | B |
And still with faces dawnward set | B |
Prepare the way said each to each | C |
And yet again Prepare we said | D |
And toil re born of resolute speech | C |
Made straight the path her feet should tread | D |
Now triumph faithful hands and steadfast wills | E |
For lo whose pomp the bannered Orient fills | E |
Whose feet are these upon the morning hills | E |
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Farewell Sweet Faith thy silver ray | F |
Now dies into the golden day | F |
Farewell Bright Dream by minstrels sung | G |
For She whom all our dreams foreran | H |
Has leaped to life a Pallas sprung | G |
Consummate from the brain of man | H |
Whom now we hail in mortal guise and gait | I |
Thought clothed with flesh partaker of our state | I |
Made corporal in us now corporate | J |
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Ah now we know the long delay | F |
But served to assure a prouder day | F |
For while we waited came the call | K |
To prove and make our title good | L |
To face the fiery ordeal | M |
That tries the claim to Nationhood | L |
And now in pride of challenge we unroll | M |
For all the world to read the record scroll | M |
Whose bloody script attests a Nation's soul | M |
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O ye our Dead who at the call | M |
Fared forth to fall as heroes fall | M |
Whose consecrated souls we failed | N |
To note beneath the common guise | O |
Till all revealing Death unveiled | N |
The splendour of your sacrifice | P |
Now crowned with more than perishable bays | Q |
Immortal in your country's love and praise | Q |
Ye too have portion in this day of days | Q |
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And ye who sowed where now we reap | R |
Whose waiting eyes now sealed in sleep | R |
Beheld far off with prescient sight | S |
This triumph of rejoicing lands | T |
Yours too the day for though its light | S |
Can pierce not to your folded hands | T |
These shining hours of advent but fulfil | M |
The cherished purpose of your constant will | M |
Whose onward impulse liveth in us still | M |
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Still lead thou vanward of our line | H |
Who shaggy massive leonine | H |
Could'st yet most finely phrase the event | U |
For if a Pisgah view was all | M |
Vouchsafed to thine uncrowned intent | U |
The echoes of thy herald call | M |
Not faintlier strive with our saluting guns | V |
And at thy words through all Australia's sons | V |
The crimson thread of kinship redder runs | V |
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But not the memory of the dead | D |
How loved so'er each sacred head | D |
To day can change from glad to grave | W |
The chords that quire a Nation born | H |
Twin offspring of the birth that gave | W |
When yester midnight chimed to morn | H |
Another age to the Redeemer's reign | H |
Another cycle to the widening gain | H |
Of Good o'er Ill and Remedy o'er Pain | H |
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Our sundering lines with love o'ergrown | H |
Our bounds the girdling seas alone | H |
Be this the burden of the psalm | X |
That every resonant hour repeats | Y |
Till day fall dusk the fern and palm | Z |
That forest our transfigured streets | Y |
And night still vibrant with the note of praise | Q |
Thrill brother hearts to song in woodland ways | Q |
When gum leaves whisper o'er the camp fire's blaze | Q |
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The Charter's read the rites are o'er | A2 |
The trumpet's blare and cannon's roar | B2 |
Are silent and the flags are furled | D |
But so not ends the task to build | D |
Into the fabric of the world | D |
The substance of our hope fulfilled | D |
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To work as those who greatly have divined | D |
The lordship of a continent assigned | D |
As God's own gift for service of mankind | D |
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O People of the onward will | M |
Unit of Union greater still | M |
Than that to day hath made you great | D |
Your true Fulfilment waiteth there | C2 |
Embraced within the larger fate | D |
Of Empire ye are born to share | C2 |
No vassal progeny of subject brood | D |
No satellite shed from Britain's plenitude | D |
But orbed with her in one wide sphere of good | D |
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O Lady in whose sovereign name | D2 |
The crowning word of Union came | D2 |
That sheds upon thine honoured age | E2 |
The glory of a rising light | D |
Across our record's earliest page | E2 |
Its earliest word thy name we write | D |
Symbol Embodiment and Guarantee | D |
Of all that makes us and maintains us free | D |
Woman and Queen God's grace abide with thee | D |
James Brunton Stephens
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