The Fly In The Ointment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HHII JJKK LLHH M NN O| When the great Creator fashion'd us and saw that we were good | A |
| He commission'd us to dominate the planet as it stood | A |
| But His ordinance meets denial still and peace remains unknown | B |
| For the Boer is always with us calling certain lands his own | B |
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| Yet the Lord has given us grace to scent a Good Thing from afar | C |
| Are we not our brother's keeper Most assuredly we are | C |
| So we seek to bear his burden and benignly take him in | D |
| Though he fight like forty devils in his ignorance and sin | D |
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| Once the Boers of Athens met us on the veldt of Marathon | E |
| Where they fired upon our ambulance and consequently won | F |
| And the Maccabean Dutchmen by their sniping tactics mean | G |
| Smote our absent minded beggars round Jerusalemfontein | G |
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| The commandos of Arminius denied us land or loot | H |
| Not to speak of that old Dopper Oom Bruce of Bannockspruit | H |
| At Sempachstrom at Gransonkop we met the laager's Swiss | I |
| And they mowed us by the acre through their white flag artifice | I |
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| O the countless tons of swaddies O the money worth of tools | J |
| We have spent to prove our doctrine that the Big Battalion rules | J |
| Yet the stolid Boer confronts us still in dirt and Scripture strong | K |
| While our dividends evaporate How long O Lord how long | K |
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| Let us beg the workman's shilling let us smell our hats in prayer | L |
| For the swift and lasting triumph of the multi millionaire | L |
| Let us reap the fields we sowed not gather where we have not strawed | H |
| Since your wily operator is the noblest work of God | H |
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| Bravely sings the long hair'd Alfred 'Forward forward let us range | M |
| Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of 'Change ' | - |
| O be sure the Good Time Coming shall attain its glorious birth | N |
| When the patriot owns his blunder and the boodler owns the earth | N |
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| 'Bulletin ' March | O |
Joseph Furphy
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