Macedonia, 1903 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAAAAAC DCEEC FGHGC HIJJH KLKKL HJMJ NONO| Devils' work | A |
| Devils' work my masters | B |
| Britain your hands are red | C |
| You may close your heart but you cannot shirk | A |
| This terrible fact We kept the Turk | A |
| His day was past and we knew his work | A |
| But he played our game so we kept the Turk | A |
| For our own sake's sake we kept the Turk | A |
| Britain your hands are red | C |
| - | |
| Red are the walls and the ways | D |
| And Britain your hands are red | C |
| There is blood on the hearth and blood in the well | E |
| And the whole fair land is a red red hell | E |
| Britain your hands are red | C |
| - | |
| Come over Come over and help us | F |
| We are deaf to the ancient cry | G |
| For the sake of our women and children | H |
| And Britain stands quietly by | G |
| O Britain your hands are red | C |
| - | |
| Cleanse your hands Britain | H |
| Yea cleanse them in blood if it must be | I |
| For blood that is shed in the cause of right | J |
| Has power as of old to wash souls white | J |
| Cleanse your hands Britain | H |
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| O for the fiery grace of old | K |
| The heart and the masterful hand | L |
| But grace grows dim and the fire grows cold | K |
| We are heavy with greed and lust and gold | K |
| And life creeps low in the land | L |
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| Break your bonds Britain | H |
| Stand up once again for the right | J |
| We have stained our hands in the times that are past | M |
| Before God we would wash them white | J |
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| For the Nations are in the proving | N |
| Each day is Judgment Day | O |
| And the peoples He finds wanting | N |
| Shall pass by the winding way | O |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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