A Riverina Road Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Now while so many turn with love and longing	A
To wan lands lying in the grey North Sea	B
To thee we turn hearts mem'ries all belonging	A
Dear land of ours to thee	B
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West ever west with the strong sunshine marching	A
Beyond the mountains far from this soft coast	C
Until we almost see the great plains arching	A
In endless mirage lost	D
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A land of camps where seldom is sojourning	A
Where men like the dim fathers of our race	E
Halt for a time and next day unreturning	A
Fare ever on apace	E
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Last night how many a leaping blaze affrighted	D
The wailing birds of passage in their file	F
And dawn sees ashes dead and embers whited	D
Where men had dwelt awhile	F
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The sun may burn the mirage shift and vanish	G
And fade and glare by turns along the sky	A
The haze of heat may all the distance banish	G
To the uncaring eye	A
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By speech or tongue of bird or brute unbroken	H
Silence may brood upon the lifeless plain	I
Nor any sign far off or near betoken	I
Man in this vast domain	I
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Though tender grace the landscape lacks too spacious	J
Impassive silent lonely to be fair	K
Their kindness swiftly comes more soft and gracious	J
Who live or tarry there	K
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All that he has in camp or homestead proffers	J
To stranger guest at once a stranger host	D
Proudest to see accepted what he offers	J
Given without a boast	D
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Pass if you can the drover's cattle stringing	A
Along the miles of the wide travelled road	D
Without a challenge through the hot dust ringing	A
Kind though abrupt the mode	D
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A cloud of dust where polish'd wheels are flashing	A
Passes along and in it rolls the mail	L
Comes from the box as on the coach goes dashing	A
The lonely driver's hail	L
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Or in the track a station youngster mounted	D
Sits in his saddle smoking for a spell	M
Rides a while onward then his news recounted	D
Parts with a brief farewell	M
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To day these plains may seem a face defiant	D
Turn'd to a mortal foe yet scorning fear	N
As when with heaven at war an Earth born giant	D
Saw the Olympian near	N
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Come yet again No child's fair face is sweeter	O
With young delight than this cool blooming land	D
Silent no more for songs than wings are fleeter	O
No blaze but sunshine bland	D
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Thus in her likeness that strange nature moulding	A
Makes man as moody sad and savage too	D
Yet in his heart like her a passion holding	A
Unselfish kind and true	D
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Therefore while many turn with love and longing	A
To wan lands lying on the grey North Sea	J
To day possessed by other mem'ries thronging	A
We turn wild West to thee	J

Thomas William Heney

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