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Not only on cross and gibbet	A
By sword and fire and flood	A
Have perished the world s sad martyrs	B
Whose names are writ in blood	A
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A woman lay in a hovel	C
Mean dismal gasping for breath	D
One friend alone was beside her	E
The name of him was Death	D
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For the sake of her orphan children	F
For money to buy them food	A
She had slaved in the dismal hovel	C
And wasted her womanhood	A
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Winter and Spring and Summer	E
Came each with a load of cares	G
And Autumn to her brought only	H
A harvest of gray hairs	G
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Far out in the bless d country	H
Beyond the smoky town	I
The winds of God were blowing	J
Evermore up and down	I
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The trees were waving signals	K
Of joy from the bush beyond	A
The gum its blue green banner	E
The fern its dark green frond	A
	-
Flower called to flower in whispers	B
By sweet caressing names	L
And young gum shoots sprang upward	A
Like woodland altar flames	L
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And deep in the distant ranges	M
The magpie s fluting song	N
Roused musical mocking echoes	O
In the woods of Dandenong	N
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And riders were galloping gaily	H
With loose held flowing reins	P
Through dim and shadowy gullies	Q
Across broad treeless plains	P
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And winds through the Heads came wafting	N
A breath of life from the sea	H
And over the blue horizon	F
The ships sailed silently	H
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And out of the sea at morning	N
The sun rose golden bright	A
And in crimson and gold and purple	C
Sank in the sea at night	A
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But in dreams alone she saw them	R
Her hours of toil between	S
For life to her was only	H
A heartless dead machine	S
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Her heart was in the graveyard	A
Where lay her children three	H
Nor work nor prayer could save them	R
Nor tears of agony	H
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On the lips of her last and dearest	A
Pressing a farewell kiss	T
She cried aloud in her anguish	U
Can God make amends for this	T
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Dull desperate ceaseless slaving	N
Bereft her of power to pray	V
And Man was careless and cruel	C
And God was far away	V
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But who shall measure His mercies	Q
His ways are in the deep	W
And after a life of sorrow	X
He gave her His gift of sleep	W
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Rest comes at last to the weary	H
And freedom to the slave	Y
Her tired and worn out body	H
Sleeps well in its pauper grave	Y
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But His angel bore her soul up	Z
To that Bright Land and Fair	A2
Where Sorrow enters never	E
Nor any cloud of Care	A2
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They came to a lovely valley	H
Agleam with asphodel	H
And the soul of the woman speaking	N
Said Here I fain would dwell	H
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The Angel answered gently	H
O Soul most pure and dear	B2
O Soul most tried and truest	A
They dwelling is not here	C2
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Behold thy place appointed	A
Long kept long waiting come	D2
Where bloom on the hills of heaven	F
The roses of Martyrdom	D2

Victor James Daley

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