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     Silence broken by his footfalls ´ death and darkness on the ground。


     Weak and wearied with his journey�察�there the lone survivor stooped��
     And the disappointment bowed him and his heart with sadness drooped��

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     And he rose and raked a hollow with his wasted�察�feeble hands��
     Where he took and hid the hero�察�in the rushes and the sands��
     But he�察�like a brother�察�laid him out of reach of wind and rain��
     And for many days he sojourned near him on that wild´faced plain��
     Whilst he stayed beside the ruin�察�whilst he lingered with the dead��
     Oh� �he must have sat in shadow�察�gloomy as the tears he shed。

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     Where our noble Burke was lying ´ where his sad companion stood��
     Came the natives of the forest ´ came the wild men of the wood��
     Down they looked�察�and saw the stranger ´ he who there in quiet slept ´
     Down they knelt�察�and o'er the chieftain bitterly they moaned and wept��
     Bitterly they mourned to see him all uncovered to the blast ´
     All uncovered to the tempest as it wailed and whistled past��
     And they shrouded him with bushes�察�so in death that he might lie��
     Like a warrior of their nation�察�sheltered from the stormy sky。

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     Ye must rise and sing their praises�察�O ye bards with souls of fire��
     For the people's voice shall echo through the wailings of your lyre��
     And we'll welcome back their comrade�察�though our eyes with tears be blind
     At the thoughts of promise perished�察�and the shadow left behind��
     Now the leaves are bleaching round them ´ now the gales above them glide��
     But the end was all accomplished�察�and their fame is far and wide。
     Though this fadeless glory cannot hide a grateful nation's grief��
     And their laurels have been blended with the gloomy cypress leaf。


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     Let them rest where they have laboured� �but�察�my country�察�mourn and moan��
     We must build with human sorrow grander monuments than stone。
     Let them rest�察�for oh� �remember�察�that in long hereafter time
     Sons of Science oft shall wander o'er that solitary clime��
     Cities bright shall rise about it�察�Age and Beauty there shall stray��
     And the fathers of the people�察�pointing to the graves�察�shall say��
     ``Here they fell�察�the glorious martyrs� �when these plains were woodlands deep��
     Here a friend�察�a brother�察�laid them�察�here the wild men came to weep。''

LURLINE

��Inscribed to Madame Lucy Escott。��


     AS you glided and glided before us that time��
         A mystical�察�magical maiden��
     We fancied we looked on a face from the clime
         Where the poets have builded their Aidenn��
     And oh�察�the sweet shadows� �And oh�察�the warm gleams
     Which lay on the land of our beautiful dreams��
     While we walked by the margins of musical streams
         And heard your wild warbling around us��


     We forgot what we were when we stood with the trees
         Near the banks of those silvery waters��
     As ever in fragments they came on the breeze��
         The songs of old Rhine and his daughters��
     And then you would pass with those radiant eyes
     Which flashed like a light in the tropical skies ´
     And ah� �the bright thoughts that would sparkle and rise
         While we heard your wild warbling around us。


     Will you ever fly back to this city of ours
         With your harp and your voice and your beauty��
     God knows we rejoice when we meet with such flowers
         On the hard road of Life and of Duty��
     Oh� �come as you did�察�with that face and that tone��
     For we wistfully look to the hours which have flown��
     And long for a glimpse of the gladness that shone
         When we heard your wild warbling around us。


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UNDER THE FIGTREE


     LIKE drifts of balm from cedared glens�察�those darling memories come��
     With soft low songs�察�and dear old tales�察�familiar to our home。
     Then breathe again that faint refrain�察�so tender�察�sad�察�and true��
     My soul turns round with listening eyes unto the harp and you��
     The fragments of a broken Past are floating down the tide��
     And she comes gleaming through the dark�察�my love�察�my life�察�my bride��
     Oh� �sit and sing ´ I know her well�察�that phantom deadly fair
     With large surprise�察�and sudden sighs�察�and streaming midnight hair��
     I know her well�察�for face to face we stood amongst the sheaves��
     Our voices mingling with a mist of music in the leaves��
     I know her well�察�for hand in hand we walked beside the sea��
     And heard the huddling waters boom beneath this old Figtree。


     God help the man that goes abroad amongst the windy pines��
     And wanders�察�like a gloomy bat�察�where never morning shines��
     That steals about amidst the rout of broken stones and graves��
     When round the cliffs the merry skiffs go scudding through the waves��
     When�察�down the bay�察�the children play�察�and scamper on the sand��
     And Life and Mirth illume the Earth�察�and Beauty fills the Land��
     God help the man� �He only hears and fears the sleepless cries
     Of smitten Love ´ of homeless Love and moaning Memories。
     Oh� �when a rhyme of olden time is sung by one so dear��
     I feel again the sweetest pain I've known for many a year��
     And from a deep�察�dull sea of sleep faint fancies come to me��
     And I forget how lone we sit beneath this old Figtree。

DROWNED AT SEA


     GLOOMY cliffs�察�so worn and wasted with the washing of the waves��
     Are ye not like giant tombstones round those lonely ocean graves��
     Are ye not the sad memorials�察�telling of a mighty grief ´
     Dark with records ground and lettered into caverned rock and reef��
     Oh� �ye show them�察�and I know them�察�and my thoughts in mourning go
     Down amongst your sunless chasms�察�deep into the surf below��
     Oh� �ye bear them�察�and declare them�察�and o'er every cleft and scar��
     I have wept for dear dead brothers perished in the lost Dunbar��
                         Ye smitten ´ ye battered��
                         And splintered and shattered
                         Cliffs of the Sea��


     Restless waves�察�so dim with dreams of sudden storms and gusty surge��
     Roaring like a gathered whirlwind reeling round a mountain verge��
     Were ye not like loosened maniacs�察�in the night when Beauty pale
     Called upon her God�察�beseeching through the uproar of the gale��
     Were ye not like maddened demons while young children faint with fear
     Cried and cried and cried for succour�察�and no helping hand was near��
     Oh�察�the sorrow of the morrow�  � lamentations near and far�  �
     Oh�察�the sobs for dear dead sisters perished in the lost Dunbar�  �
                         Ye ruthless�察�unsated��
                         And hateful�察�and hated
                         Waves of the Sea��


     Ay�察�we stooped and moaned in darkness ´
             eyes might strain and hearts might plead��
     For their darlings crying wildly�察�they would never rise nor heed��
     Ay�察�we yearned into their faces looking for the life in vain��
     Wailing like to children blinded with a mist of sudden pain��
     Dear hands clenched�察�and dear eyes rigid in a stern and stony stare��
     Dear lips white from past affliction�察�dead to all our mad despair��
     Ah�察�the groaning and the moaning ´ ah�察�the thoughts which rise in tears
     When we turn to all those loved ones�察�looking backward five long years��
                         The fathers and mothers��
                         The sisters and brothers
                         Drowned at Sea��

MORNING IN THE BUSH

��A Juvenile Fragment��


     ABOVE the skirts of yellow clouds��
     The god´like Sun�察�arrayed
     In blinding splendour�察�swiftly rose��
     And looked athwart the glade��
     The sleepy dingo watched him break
     The bonds that curbed his flight��
     And from his golden tresses shake
     The fading gems of Night��
     And wild goburras laughed aloud
     Their merry morning songs��
     As Echo answered in the depths
     With a thousand thousand tongues��
     The gully´depths where many a vine
     Of ancient growth had crept��
     To cluster round the hoary pine��
     Where scanty mosses wept。


     Huge stones�察�and damp and broken crags��
     In wild chaotic heap��
     Were lying at the barren base
     Of the ferny hillside steep��
     Between those fragments hollows lay��
     Upfilled with fruitful ground��
     Where many a modest floweret grew��
     To scent the wind´breaths round��
     As fertile patches bloom within
     A dried and worldly heart��
     When some that look can only see
     The cold�察�the barren part��
     The Miser�察�full with thoughts of gain��
     The meanest of his race��
     May in his breast some verdure hide��
     Though none that verdure trace。


     Where time´worn cliffs were jutting out��
     With rough and ragged edges��
     The snowy mountain´lily slept
     Behind the earthy ledges��

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     Like some sweet Oriental Maid��
     Who blindly deems it duty
     To wear a veil before her face��
     And hide her peerless beauty��
     Or like to Innocence that thrives
     In midst of sin and sorrows��
     Nor from the cheerless scene around
     The least infection borrows��
     But stayeth out her mortal life ´
     Though in that lifetime lonely ´
     With Virtue's lustre round her heart��
     And Virtue's lustre only。


     A patch of sunshine here and there
     Lay on a leaf´strewn water´pool��
     Whose tribute trickled down the rocks
     In gurgling ripples�察�clear and cool��
     As iguanas�察�from the clefts��
     Would steal along with rustling sound��
     To where the restle
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