Sir Henry Parkes

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Stanzas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEDFE GHGHHIHII JKLKKM NN

Up go the beautiful and world watch'd starsA
Lifting the glory of AmericaB
'Mong the red flags which gleam through mastsC
and sparsC
Crowded in gay magnificence to dayD
Where three score years ago none found their wayD
Of all the ships which left old England's shoreE
Up goes the starry flag on waves which layD
In undiscover'd solitude when o'erF
America those stars first glanc'd from fields of goreE
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In friendly beauty floats that free fix'd flagG
'Gainst England's glowing ensign I could dreamH
Of times when the wild bush each uncouth cragG
And precipice beside this haven streamH
Shall yield to one vast city and the gleamH
Of new born banners shall illumine itI
And these alike be foreign in the beamH
Of Australasia's morning Heaven admitI
One patriot spirit here and Freedom's fires are litI
-
Not ever shall the exile's toil be allJ
To bring the harvest of this infant landK
The children of the buried exile shallL
Behold a mother's beauty in the blandK
Aspect of Nature on their native strandK
And Freedom then shall choose a dwelling hereM
Oh Happy epoch when the 'great and grand '-
The memory of whose deeds mankind revereN
Number a Washington from the world's Austral sphereN

Sir Henry Parkes



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