What The Heart Of The Poet Said To The 'bulletin' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ABAC DBDC EBEC FBFC DBDC FBFC GBGC HBHC GBGC| Tell me not in future numbers | A |
| That our thought becomes inane | B |
| That our metre halts and lumbers | A |
| When the Wattle blooms again | C |
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| Lies of great men all remind us | A |
| We can challenge and restrain | B |
| Such attempts to bluff and blind us | A |
| When the Wattle blooms again | C |
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| Therefore take our gage of battle | D |
| Freedom reasserts her reign | B |
| We are not dumb driven cattle | D |
| When the Wattle blooms again | C |
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| Doubtless ANSWERS weekly daily | E |
| Adding to his heap of slain | B |
| Feels a jar when Nature gaily | E |
| Bids the Wattle bloom again | C |
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| Nocent censor time thou learnest | F |
| All this contract may contain | B |
| Dust thou art to dust returnest | F |
| But the Wattle blooms again | C |
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| Time may change this loyal journal | D |
| From religious to profane | B |
| But a rhythmic law eternal | D |
| Makes the Wattle bloom again | C |
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| Trust no Flossie howe'er pleasant | F |
| Sweeps are treacherous totes are vain | B |
| Banks and scrip are evanescent | F |
| But the Wattle blooms again | C |
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| Cultivate no fair ideal | G |
| Own no country seat in Spain | B |
| All these things must go to Sheol | G |
| Whil'st the Wattle blooms again | C |
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| Czar and Pope and Dei Gratia | H |
| Pass like phantoms of the brain | B |
| Never so our bright acacia | H |
| For the Wattle blooms again | C |
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| Thus you see austere and lonely | G |
| Sailing o'er Life's solemn main | B |
| One great fact is certain only | G |
| That the Wattle blooms again | C |
Joseph Furphy
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