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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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