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     Or was it a dream that I hurried without
         To clutch at and grapple the dark��


     In the shadow I stood for a moment and spake ´
         ``Bright thing that was loved in the past��
     Oh� �am I asleep ´ or abroad and awake��
         And are you so near me at last��


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     ``Oh�察�roamer from lands where the vanished years go��
         Oh�察�waif from those mystical zones��
     Come here where I long for you�察�broken and low��
         On the mosses and watery stones��


     ``Come out of your silence and tell me if Life
         Is so fair in that world as they say��
     Was it worth all this yearning�察�and weeping�察�and strife
         When you left it behind you to´day��


     ``Will it end all this watching�察�and doubting�察�and dread��
         Do these sorrows die out with our breath��
     Will they pass from our souls like a nightmare��'' I said��
         ``While we glide through the mazes of Death��


     ``Come out of that darkness and teach me the lore
         You have learned since I looked on your face��
     By the summers that blossomed and faded of yore ´
         By the lights which have fled to that place��


     ``You answer me not when I know that you could ´
     When I know that you could and you should��
         Though the storms be abroad on the wave��
     Though the rain droppeth down with a wail to the wood��
         And my heart is as cold as your grave��''

GOD HELP OUR MEN AT SEA


     The wild night comes like an owl to its lair��
         The black clouds follow fast��
     And the sun´gleams die�察�and the lightnings glare��
         And the ships go heaving past�察�past�察�past ´
         The ships go heaving past��
                 Bar the doors�察�and higher�察�higher
                 Pile the faggots on the fire��
                 Now abroad�察�by many a light��
                 Empty seats there are to´night ´
                 Empty seats that none may fill��
                 For the storm grows louder still��
     How it surges and swells through the gorges and dells��
         Under the ledges and over the lea��
     Where a watery sound goeth moaning around ´
                 God help our men at sea��


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     Oh� �never a tempest blew on the shore
         But that some heart did moan
     For a darling voice it would hear no more
         And a face that had left it lone�察�lone�察�lone ´
         A face that had left it lone��
                 I am watching by a pane
                 Darkened with the gusty rain��
                 Watching�察�through a mist of tears��
                 Sad with thoughts of other years��
                 For a brother I did miss
                 In a stormy time like this。
     Ah� �the torrent howls past�察�like a fiend on the blast��
         Under the ledges and over the lea��
     And the pent waters gleam�察�and the wild surges scream ´
                 God help our men at sea��


     Ah�察�Lord� �they may grope through the dark to find
         Thy hand within the gale��
     And cries may rise on the wings of the wind
         From mariners weary and pale�察�pale�察�pale ´
         From mariners weary and pale��
                 'Tis a fearful thing to know��
                 While the storm´winds loudly blow��
                 That a man can sometimes come
                 Too near to his father's home��
                 So that he shall kneel and say��
                 ``Lord�察�I would be far away��''
     Ho� �the hurricanes roar round a dangerous shore��
         Under the ledges and over the lea��
     And there twinkles a light on the billows so white ´
                 God help our men at sea��

SITTING BY THE FIRE


     Barren Age and withered World��
     Oh� �the dying leaves��
     Like a drizzling rain��
     Falling round the roof ´
     Pattering on the pane��
     Frosty Age and cold�察�cold World��
     Ghosts of other days��
     Trooping past the faded fire��
     Flit before the gaze。

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     Now the wind goes soughing wild
     O'er the whistling Earth��
     And we front a feeble flame��
     Sitting round the hearth��
     Sitting by the fire��
     Watching in its glow��
     Ghosts of other days
     Trooping to and fro。

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     Oh�察�the nights ´ the nights we've spent��
     Sitting by the fire��
     Cheerful in its glow��
     Twenty summers back ´
     Twenty years ago��
     If the days were days of toil
     Wherefore should we mourn��
     There were shadows near the shine��
     Flowers with the thorn��
     And we still can recollect
     Evenings spent in mirth ´
     Fragments of a broken life��
     Sitting round the hearth��
     Sitting by the fire��
     Cheerful in its glow��
     Twenty summers back ´
     Twenty years ago。


     Beauty stooped to bless us once��
     Sitting by the fire��
     Happy in its glow��
     Forty summers back ´
     Forty years ago。
     Words of love were interchanged��
     Maiden hearts we stole��
     And the light affection throws
     Slept on every soul。
     Oh�察�the hours went flying past ´
     Hours of priceless worth��
     But we took no note of Time��
     Sitting round the hearth��

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     Sitting by the fire��
     Happy in its glow��
     Forty summers back ´
     Forty years ago。


     Gleesome children were we not��
     Sitting by the fire��
     Ruddy in its glow��
     Sixty summers back ´
     Sixty years ago。
     Laughing voices filled the room��
     Oh�察�the songs we sung��
     When the evenings hurried by ´
     When our hearts were young��
     Pleasant faces watched the flame ´
     Eyes illumed with mirth ´
     And we told some merry tales��
     Sitting round the hearth��
     Sitting by the fire��
     Ruddy in its glow��
     Sixty summers back ´
     Sixty years ago。

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     Barren Age and withered World��
     Oh�察�the dying leaves��
     Like a drizzling rain��
     Falling round the roof ´
     Pattering on the pane��
     Frosty Age and cold�察�cold World��
     Ghosts of other days��
     Trooping past the faded fire��
     Flit before the gaze。
     Now the wind goes soughing wild
     O'er the whistling Earth��
     And we front a feeble flame��
     Sitting round the hearth��
     Sitting by the fire��
     Watching�察�in its glow��
     Ghosts of other days
     Trooping to and fro��


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BELLAMBI'S MAID


     AMONGST the thunder´splintered caves
         On Ocean's long and windy shore��
     I catch the voice of dying waves
         Below the ridges old and hoar��
     The spray descends in silver showers��
         And lovely whispers come and go��
     Like echoes from the happy hours
         I never more may hope to know��
     The low mimosa droops with locks
         Of yellow hair�察�in dewy glade��
     While far above the caverned rocks
         I hear the dark Bellambi's Maid��


     The moonlight dreams upon the sail
         That drives the restless ship to sea��
     The clouds troop past the mountain vale��
         And sink like spirits down the lee��
     The foggy peak of Corrimal��
         Uplifted�察�bears the pallid glow
     That streams from yonder airy hall
         And robes the sleeping hills below��
     The wandering meteors of the sky
         Beneath the distant waters wade��
     While mystic music hurries by ´
         The songs of dark Bellambi's Maid��


     Why comes your voice�察�you lonely One��
         Along the wild harp's wailing strings��
     Have not our hours of meeting gone��
         Like fading dreams on phantom wings��
     Are not the grasses round your grave
         Yet springing green and fresh to view��
     And does the gleam on Ocean's wave
         Tide gladness now to me and you��
     Oh� �cold and cheerless falls the night
         On withered hearts and hopes decayed��
     And I have seen but little light
         Since died the dark Bellambi's Maid��


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THE CURLEW SONG


     The viewless blast flies moaning past��
         Away to the forest trees��
     Where giant pines and leafless vines
         Bend 'neath the wandering breeze��
     From ferny streams�察�unearthly screams
         Are heard in the midnight blue��
     As afar they roam to the shepherd's home��
         The shrieks of the wild Curlew��
                 As afar they roam
                 To the shepherd's home��
         The shrieks of the wild Curlew��


     The mists are curled o'er a dark´faced world��
         And the shadows sleep around��
     Where the clear lagoon reflects the moon
         In her hazy glory crowned��
     While dingoes howl�察�and wake the growl
         Of the watchdog brave and true��
     Whose loud�察�rough bark shoots up in the dark��
         With the song of the lone Curlew��
                 Whose loud�察�rough bark
                 Shoots up in the dark��
         With the song of the lone Curlew��


     Near herby banks the dark green ranks
         Of the rushes stoop to drink��
     And the ripples chime�察�in a measured time��
         On the smooth and mossy brink��
     As wind´breaths sigh�察�and pass�察�and die��
         To start from the swamps anew��
     And join again o'er ridge and plain
         With the wails of the sad Curlew��
                 And join again
                 O'er ridge and plain
         With the wails of the sad Curlew��


     The clouds are thrown around the cone
         Of the mountain bare and high��
     ��Whose craggy peak uprears to the cheek ´
         To the face of the sombre sky��

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     When down beneath the foggy wreath��
         Full many a gully through��
     They rend the air�察�like cries of despair��
         The screams of the wild Curlew��
                
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