Written For The O'connel Centenary. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDECE FGHGIJKJ LMNMOPQP CRSRTUVU IWXWCYZY CA2B2C2D2E2F2E2 F2G2H2G2CI2CI2| Sons of the bright green island | A |
| Gathered by the pine fringed lake | B |
| In honour of his memory | C |
| Who battled for your sake | B |
| Listen we too pay our tribute | D |
| To a fame that well endures | E |
| He who ventured much for liberty | C |
| Is ours as well as yours | E |
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| Men fought in vain for freedom | F |
| And lay down in felon graves | G |
| Your noblest then were exiles | H |
| Your proudest then were slaves | G |
| When the people blind and furious | I |
| Maddened by oppression's scorn | J |
| Struggled seethed in wild upheaval | K |
| Was the Liberator born | J |
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| Who took the sword fell by the sword | L |
| This man was born to show | M |
| How thoughts would win where steel had failed | N |
| One hundred years ago | M |
| By force the patriot tried in vain | O |
| To stem oppression's might | P |
| This man arose and won the cause | Q |
| By pleading for the right | P |
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| He stood to plead for liberty | C |
| On Dunedin's Calton hill | R |
| No man had ever greater power | S |
| To move men's hearts at will | R |
| Erin without name senate flag | T |
| This her advocate and son | U |
| Pleaded for those who tried and lost | V |
| With those who tried and won | U |
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| He stood to ask for justice | I |
| For ruth and mercy's grace | W |
| For a people of another faith | X |
| And of another race | W |
| He stood on ground made holy | C |
| By resistance unto wrong | Y |
| And Scotia's freemen gathered round | Z |
| Full twenty thousand strong | Y |
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| And rock and distant city | C |
| The broad Forth gliding clear | A2 |
| Yea every heath clad hill top | B2 |
| Had hushed itself to hear | C2 |
| From the shades of hero martyrs | D2 |
| Of patriotic fame | E2 |
| From the land they thought worth fighting for | F2 |
| High inspiration came | E2 |
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| He won the cause he strove for | F2 |
| With bold undaunted brow | G2 |
| And his name and fame roll brightening on | H2 |
| Along the years till now | G2 |
| All honour to his memory | C |
| May his words where'er they fall | I2 |
| Bring forth the love of liberty | C |
| And equal rights to all | I2 |
Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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