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Fast the fisherman flies homewards o'er the billows deep and dark;

THAT boat needs no mortal's mooring  sad at heart he seeks his bed;

For his life henceforth is clouded  he hath piloted the Dead!









Sir Henry Parkes。







  The Buried Chief



      (November 6th; 1886)





With speechless lips and solemn tread

 They brought the Lawyer…Statesman home:

They laid him with the gather'd dead;

 Where rich and poor like brothers come。



How bravely did the stripling climb;

 From step to step the rugged hill:

His gaze thro' that benighted time

 Fix'd on the far…off beacon still。



He faced the storm that o'er him burst;

 With pride to match the proudest born:

He bore unblench'd Detraction's worst; 

 Paid blow for blow; and scorn for scorn。



He scaled the summit while the sun

 Yet shone upon his conquer'd track:

Nor falter'd till the goal was won;

 Nor struggling upward; once look'd back。



But what avails the 〃pride of place〃;

 Or winged chariot rolling past?

He heeds not now who wins the race;

 Alike to him the first or last。









Thomas Alexander Browne (‘Rolf Boldrewood')。







  Perdita





She is beautiful yet; with her wondrous hair

 And eyes that are stormy with fitful light;

The delicate hues of brow and cheek

 Are unmarred all; rose…clear and bright;

That matchless frame yet holds at bay

The crouching bloodhounds; Remorse; Decay。



There is no fear in her great dark eyes 

 No hope; no love; no care;

Stately and proud she looks around

 With a fierce; defiant stare;

Wild words deform her reckless speech;

Her laugh has a sadness tears never reach。



Whom should she fear on earth?  Can Fate

 One direr torment lend

To her few little years of glitter and gloom

 With the sad old story to end

When the spectres of Loneliness; Want and Pain

Shall arise one night with Death in their train?



     。    。    。    。    。



I see in a vision a woman like her

 Trip down an orchard slope;

With rosy prattlers that shout a name

 In tones of rapture and hope;

While the yeoman; gazing at children and wife;

Thanks God for the pride and joy of his life。



     。    。    。    。    。



Whose conscience is heavy with this dark guilt?

 Who pays at the final day

For a wasted body; a murdered soul;

 And how shall he answer; I say;

For her outlawed years; her early doom;

And despair  despair  beyond the tomb?









Adam Lindsay Gordon。







  A Dedication





They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less

   Of sound than of words;

In lands where bright blossoms are scentless;

   And songless bright birds;

Where; with fire and fierce drought on her tresses;

Insatiable summer oppresses

Sere woodlands and sad wildernesses;

   And faint flocks and herds。



Where in dreariest days; when all dews end;

   And all winds are warm;

Wild Winter's large flood…gates are loosen'd;

   And floods; freed from storm;

From broken…up fountain heads; dash on

Dry deserts with long pent up passion 

Here rhyme was first framed without fashion 

   Song shaped without form。



Whence gather'd?   The locust's glad chirrup

   May furnish a stave;

The ring of a rowel and stirrup;

   The wash of a wave;

The chaunt of the marsh frog in rushes;

That chimes through the pauses and hushes

Of nightfall; the torrent that gushes;

   The tempests that rave;



In the deep'ning of dawn; when it dapples

   The dusk of the sky;

With streaks like the redd'ning of apples;

   The ripening of rye。

To eastward; when cluster by cluster;

Dim stars and dull planets; that muster;

Wax wan in a world of white lustre

   That spreads far and high;



In the gathering of night gloom o'erhead; in

   The still silent change;

All fire…flush'd when forest trees redden

   On slopes of the range。

When the gnarl'd; knotted trunks Eucalyptian

Seem carved; like weird columns Egyptian;

With curious device; quaint inscription;

   And hieroglyph strange;



In the Spring; when the wattle gold trembles

   'Twixt shadow and shine;

When each dew…laden air draught resembles

   A long draught of wine;

When the sky…line's blue burnish'd resistance

Makes deeper the dreamiest distance;

Some song in all hearts hath existence; 

   Such songs have been mine。







  Thora's Song





We severed in Autumn early;

 Ere the earth was torn by the plough;

The wheat and the oats and the barley

 Are ripe for the harvest now。

We sunder'd one misty morning

 Ere the hills were dimm'd by the rain;

Through the flowers those hills adorning 

 Thou comest not back again。



My heart is heavy and weary

 With the weight of a weary soul;

The mid…day glare grows dreary;

 And dreary the midnight scroll。

The corn…stalks sigh for the sickle;

 'Neath the load of their golden grain;

I sigh for a mate more fickle 

 Thou comest not back again。



The warm sun riseth and setteth;

 The night bringeth moistening dew;

But the soul that longeth forgetteth

 The warmth and the moisture too。

In the hot sun rising and setting

 There is naught save feverish pain;

There are tears in the night…dews wetting 

 Thou comest not back again。



Thy voice in my ear still mingles

 With the voices of whisp'ring trees;

Thy kiss on my cheek still tingles

 At each kiss of the summer breeze。

While dreams of the past are thronging

 For substance of shades in vain;

I am waiting; watching and longing 

 Thou comest not back again。



Waiting and watching ever;

 Longing and lingering yet;

Leaves rustle and corn…stalks quiver;

 Winds murmur and waters fret。

No answer they bring; no greeting;

 No speech; save that sad refrain;

Nor voice; save an echo repeating 

 He cometh not back again。







  The Sick Stock…rider





Hold hard; Ned!  Lift me down once more; and lay me in the shade。

 Old man; you've had your work cut out to guide

Both horses; and to hold me in the saddle when I swayed;

 All through the hot; slow; sleepy; silent ride。

The dawn at 〃Moorabinda〃 was a mist rack dull and dense;

 The sun…rise was a sullen; sluggish lamp;

I was dozing in the gateway at Arbuthnot's bound'ry fence;

 I was dreaming on the Limestone cattle camp。

We crossed the creek at Carricksford; and sharply through the haze;

 And suddenly the sun shot flaming forth;

To southward lay 〃Katawa〃; with the sand peaks all ablaze;

 And the flushed fields of Glen Lomond lay to north。

Now westward winds the bridle…path that leads to Lindisfarm;

 And yonder looms the double…headed Bluff;

From the far side of the first hill; when the skies are clear and calm;

 You can see Sylvester's woolshed fair enough。

Five miles we used to call it from our homestead to the place

 Where the big tree spans the roadway like an arch;

'Twas here we ran the dingo down that gave us such a chase

 Eight years ago  or was it nine?  last March。

'Twas merry in the glowing morn among the gleaming grass;

 To wander as we've wandered many a mile;

And blow the cool tobacco cloud; and watch the white wreaths pass;

 Sitting loosely in the saddle all the while。

'Twas merry 'mid the blackwoods; when we spied the station roofs;

 To wheel the wild scrub cattle at the yard;

With a running fire of stock whips and a fiery run of hoofs;

 Oh! the hardest day was never then too hard!

Aye! we had a glorious gallop after 〃Starlight〃 and his gang;

 When they bolted from Sylvester's on the flat;

How the sun…dried reed…beds crackled; how the flint…strewn ranges rang;

 To the strokes of 〃Mountaineer〃 and 〃Acrobat〃。

Hard behind them in the timber; harder still across the heath;

 Close beside them through the tea…tree scrub we dash'd;

And the golden…tinted fern leaves; how they rustled underneath;

 And the honeysuckle osiers; how they crash'd!

We led the hunt throughout; Ned; on the chestnut and the grey;

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