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 Into the gulf of flame

Were swept; in less than a breathing space

The laughing eyes; and the comely face;

 And the lips that named HER name。



She bore me bravely; the good bay mare; 

 Stunned; and dizzy and blind;

I heard the sound of a mingling roar 

'Twas the Lachlan River that rushed before;

 And the flames that rolled behind。



Safe  safe; at Nammoora gate;

 I fell; and lay like a stone。

O love! thine arms were about me then;

Thy warm tears called me to life again; 

 But  O God! that I came alone! 



We dwell in peace; my beautiful one

 And I; by the streams in the West; 

But oft through the mist of my dreams along

Rides Bannerman of the Dandenong;

 With the blood…red rose on his breast。









Ethel Castilla。







  An Australian Girl



      〃She's pretty to walk with;

      And witty to talk with;

      And pleasant; too; to think on。〃

                          Sir John Suckling。





She has a beauty of her own;

A beauty of a paler tone

    Than English belles;

Yet southern sun and southern air

Have kissed her cheeks; until they wear

The dainty tints that oft appear

    On rosy shells。



Her frank; clear eyes bespeak a mind

Old…world traditions fail to bind。

    She is not shy

Or bold; but simply self…possessed;

Her independence adds a zest

Unto her speech; her piquant jest;

    Her quaint reply。



O'er classic volumes she will pore

With joy; and true scholastic lore

    Will often gain。

In sports she bears away the bell;

Nor; under music's siren spell;

To dance divinely; flirt as well;

    Does she disdain。







  A Song of Sydney



      (1894)





High headlands all jealously hide thee;

 O fairest of sea…girdled towns!

Thine Ocean…spouse smileth beside thee;

 While each headland threatens and frowns。

Like Venice; upheld on sea…pinion;

 And fated to reign o'er the free;

Thou wearest; in sign of dominion;

    The zone of the sea。



No winter thy fertile slope hardens;

 O new Florence; set in the South!

All lands give their flowers to thy gardens;

 That glow to thy bright harbour's mouth;

The waratah and England's red roses

 With stately magnolias entwine;

Gay sunflowers fill sea…scented closes;

    All sweet with woodbine。



Thy harbour's fair flower…crowned islands

 See flags of all countries unfurled;

Thou smilest from green; sunlit highlands

 To open thine arms to the world!

Dark East's and fair West's emulations

 Resound from each hill…shadowed quay;

And over the songs of all nations;

    The voice of the sea。









Francis William Lauderdale Adams。







  Something





It is something in this darker dream demented

 to have wrestled with its pleasure and its pain:

it is something to have sinned; and have repented:

 it is something to have failed; and tried again!



It is something to have loved the brightest Beauty

 with no hope of aught but silence for your vow:

it is something to have tried to do your duty:

 it is something to be trying; trying now!



And; in the silent solemn hours;

 when your soul floats down the far faint flood of time 

to think of Earth's lovers who are ours;

 of her saviours saving; suffering; sublime:



And that you with THESE may be her lover;

 with THESE may save and suffer for her sake 

IT IS JOY TO HAVE LIVED; SO TO DISCOVER

 YOU'VE A LIFE YOU CAN GIVE AND SHE CAN TAKE!







  Gordon's Grave





All the heat and the glow and the hush

 of the summer afternoon;

the scent of the sweet…briar bush

 over bowing grass…blades and broom;



the birds that flit and pass;

 singing the song he knows;

the grass…hopper in the grass;

 the voice of the she…oak boughs。



Ah; and the shattered column

 crowned with the poet's wreath。

Who; who keeps silent and solemn

 his passing place beneath?



~This was a poet that loved God's breath;

 his life was a passionate quest;

he looked down deep in the wells of death;

 and now he is taking his rest。~







  To A。 L。 Gordon





In night…long days; in aeons

 where all Time's nights are one;

where life and death sing paeans

as of Greeks and Galileans;

 never begun or done;



where fate; the slow swooping condor;

 comes glooming all the sky 

as you have pondered I ponder;

as you have wandered I wander;

 as you have died; shall I die?







  Love and Death





Death? is it death you give?  So be it!  O Death;

 thou hast been long my friend; and now thy pale

cool cheek shall have my kiss; while the faint breath

expires on thy still lips; O lovely Death!



Come then; loose hands; fair Life; without a wail!

 We've had good hours together; and you were sweet

what time love whispered with the nightingale;

tho' ever your music by the lark's would fail。



Come then; loose hands!  Our lover time is done。

Now is the marriage with the eternal sun。

 The hours are few that rest; are few and fleet。

Good…bye!  The game is lost:  the game is won。









Thomas William Heney。







  Absence





Ah; happy air that; rough or soft;

 May kiss that face and stay;

And happy beams that from above

 May choose to her their way;

And happy flowers that now and then

 Touch lips more sweet than they!



But it were not so blest to be

 Or light or air or rose;

Those dainty fingers tear and toss

 The bloom that in them glows;

And come or go; both wind and ray

 She heeds not; if she knows。



But if I come thy choice should be

 Either to love or not 

For if I might I would not kiss

 And then be all forgot;

And it were best thy love to lose

 If love self…scorn begot。







  A Riverina Road





Now while so many turn with love and longing

 To wan lands lying in the grey North Sea;

To thee we turn; hearts; mem'ries; all belonging;

 Dear land of ours; to thee。



West; ever west; with the strong sunshine marching

 Beyond the mountains; far from this soft coast;

Until we almost see the great plains arching;

 In endless mirage lost。



A land of camps where seldom is sojourning;

 Where men like the dim fathers of our race;

Halt for a time; and next day; unreturning;

 Fare ever on apace。



Last night how many a leaping blaze affrighted

 The wailing birds of passage in their file;

And dawn sees ashes dead and embers whited

 Where men had dwelt awhile。



The sun may burn; the mirage shift and vanish

 And fade and glare by turns along the sky;

The haze of heat may all the distance banish

 To the uncaring eye。



By speech; or tongue of bird or brute; unbroken

 Silence may brood upon the lifeless plain;

Nor any sign; far off or near; betoken

 Man in this vast domain。



Though tender grace the landscape lacks; too spacious;

 Impassive; silent; lonely; to be fair;

Their kindness swiftly comes more soft and gracious;

 Who live or tarry there。



All that he has; in camp or homestead; proffers

 To stranger guest at once a stranger host;

Proudest to see accepted what he offers;

 Given without a boast。



Pass; if you can; the drover's cattle stringing

 Along the miles of the wide travelled road;

Without a challenge through the hot dust ringing;

 Kind though abrupt the mode。



A cloud of dust where polish'd wheels are flashing

 Passes along; and in it rolls the mail。

Comes from the box as on the coach goes dashing

 The lonely driver's hail。



Or in the track a station youngster mounted

 Sits in his saddle smoking for a 〃spell〃;

Rides a while onward; then; his news recounted;

 Parts with a brief farewell。



To…day these plains may seem a face defiant;

 Turn'd to a mortal foe; yet scorning fear;

As when; with heaven at war; an Earth…born giant

 Saw the Olympian near。



Come yet again!  No child's fair face is sweeter

 With young delight than this cool blooming land;

Silent no more; for songs than wings are fleeter;

 No blaze; but sunshine bland。



Thus in her likeness that strange nature moulding

 Makes man as moody; sad and savage too;

Yet in his heart; like her; a passion holding;

 Unselfish; kind and true。



Therefore; while many turn with love and longing

 To wan lands lying on the grey North Sea;

To…day possessed by other mem'ries thronging

 We turn; wild West; to thee!





 23rd December; 1891。









Patrick Edward Quinn。







  A Girl's Grave



      〃Aged 17; OF A BROKEN HEART; January 1st; 1841。〃





What story is here of broken love;

 What idyllic sad romance;

What arrow fretted the silken dove

 That met with such grim mischance?



I picture you; sleeper of long ago;

 When you trifled and danced and smiled;

All golden laughter and beauty's glow

 In a girl life sweet and wild。



Hair with the red gold's luring tinge;

 Fine as the finest silk;

Violet eyes with a golden fringe

 And cheeks of roses and milk。



Something of this you must have been;

 Something gentle and sweet;

To have broken your heart at seventeen

 And died in such sad defeat。



Hardly one of your kinsfolk live;

 It was all so long ago;

The tale of the cruel love to give

 That laid you here so low。



Loving; trusting; and foully paid 

 The story is easily guessed;

A blotted sun and skies that fade

 And this grass…grown grave the rest。



Whatever the cynic may sourly say;

 With a dash of truth; I ween;

Of the girls of the period; in your day

 They had hearts at seventeen。



Dead of a fashion out of date;

 Such folly has passed away

Like the hoop and patch and modish gait

 That went out with an older day。



The stone is battered and all awry;

 The words can be scarcely read;

The rank reeds clustering thick and high

 Over your buried head。



I pluck one straight as a Paynim's lance

 To keep your m

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