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When our youthful eyes�察�rejoicing�察�saw the sunlight round the spray
In a rainbow´wreath of splendour�察�glittering underneath the day��
Sunlight flashing past the billows�察�falling cliffs and crags among��
Clothing hopeful friendship basking on the shores of Wollongong。
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Echoes of departed voices�察�whispers from forgotten dreams��
Come across my spirit�察�like the murmurs of melodious streams。
Here we both have wandered nightly�察�when the moonshine cold and pale
Shimmer'd on the cone of Keira�察�sloping down the sleeping vale��
When the mournful waves came sobbing�察�sobbing on the furrowed shore��
Like to lone hearts weeping over loved ones they shall see no more��
While the silver ripples�察�stealing past the shells and slimy stones��
Broke beneath the caverns�察�dying�察�one by one�察�in muffled moans��
As the fragrant wood´winds roaming�察�with a fitful cadence sung
'Mid the ghostly branches belting round the shores of Wollongong。
Lovely faces flit before us�察�friendly forms around us stand��
Gleams of well´remembered gladness trip along the yellow sand。
Here the gold´green waters glistened underneath our dreaming gaze��
As the lights of Heaven slanted down the pallid ether haze��
Here the mossy rock´pool�察�like to one that stirs himself in sleep��
Trembled every moment at the roaring of the restless deep��
While the stately vessels swooping to the breezes fair and free��
Passed away like sheeted spectres�察�fading down the distant sea��
And our wakened fancies sparkled�察�and our soul´born thoughts we strung
Into joyous lyrics�察�singing with the waves of Wollongong。
Low´breathed strains of sweetest music float about my raptured ears��
Angel´eyes are glancing at me hopeful smiles and happy tears。
Merry feet go scaling up the old and thunder´shattered steeps��
And the billows clamber after�察�and the surge to ocean leaps��
Scattered into fruitless showers�察�falling where the breakers roll��
Baffled like the aspirations of a proud ambitious soul。
Far off sounds of silvery laughter through the hollow caverns ring��
While my heart leaps up to catch reviving pleasure on the wing��
And the years come trooping backward�察�and we both again are young��
Walking side by side upon the lovely shores of Wollongong。
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Fleeting dreams and idle fancies� �Lo�察�the gloomy after Age
Creepeth�察�like an angry shadow�察�over life's eventful stage��
Joy is but a mocking phantom�察�throwing out its glitter brief ´
Short´lived as the western sunbeam dying from the cedar leaf。
Here we linger�察�lonely´hearted�察�musing over visions fled��
While the sickly twilight withers from the arches overhead。
Semblance of a bliss delusive are those dull�察�receding rays��
Semblance of the faint reflection left to us of other days��
Days of vernal hope and gladness�察�hours when the blossoms sprung
Round the feet of blithesome ramblers by the shores of Wollongong。
ELLA WITH THE SHINING HAIR
THROUGH many a fragrant cedar grove
A darkened water moans��
And there pale Memory stood with Love
Amongst the moss´green stones。
The shimmering sunlight fell and kissed
The grasstree's golden sheaves��
But we were troubled with a mist
Of music in the leaves。
One passed us�察�like a sudden gleam��
Her face was deadly fair。
``Oh�察�go��'' we said�察 �`you homeless Dream
Of Ella's shining hair��
``We halt�察�like one with tired wings��
And we would fain forget
That there are tempting�察�maddening things
Too high to clutch at yet��
``Though seven Springs have filled the Wood
With pleasant hints and signs��
Since faltering feet went forth and stood
With Death amongst the pines。''
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From point to point unwittingly
We wish to clamber still��
Till we have light enough to see
The summits of the hill。
``O do not cry�察�my sister dear��''
Said beaming Hope to Love��
``Though we have been so troubled here
The Land is calm above��
``Beyond the regions of the storm
We'll find the golden gates��
Where�察�all the day�察�a radiant Form��
Our Ella�察�sits and waits。''
And Memory murmured�此 �`She was one
Of God's own darlings lent��
And Angels wept that she had gone��
And wondered why she went。
``I know they came�察�and talked to her��
Through every garden breeze��
About eternal Hills of Myrrh��
And quiet Jasper Seas。
``For her the Earth contained no charms��
All things were strange and wild��
And I believe a Seraph's arms
Caught up the sainted Child。''
And Love looked round�察�and said�此 �`Oh�察�you
That sit by Beulah's streams��
Shake on this thirsty life the dew
Which brings immortal dreams��
``Ah� �turn to us�察�and greet us oft
With looks of pitying balm��
And hints of heaven�察�in whispers soft��
To make our troubles calm。
``My Ella with the shining hair��
Behold�察�these many years��
We've held up wearied hands in prayer��
And groped about in tears。''
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But Hope sings on�此 �`Beyond the storm
We'll find the golden gates
Where�察�all the day�察�a radiant Form��
Our Ella�察�sits and waits。''
THE BARCOO
��The Squatter's Song��
FROM the runs of the Narran�察�wide´dotted with sheep��
And loud with the lowing of cattle��
We speed for a land where the strange forests sleep
And the hidden creeks bubble and brattle��
Now call on the horses�察�and leave the blind courses
And sources of rivers that all of us know��
For�察�crossing the ridges�察�and passing the ledges��
And running up gorges�察�we'll come to the verges
Of gullies where waters eternally flow。
Oh� �the herds they will rush down the spurs of the hill
To feed on the grasses so cool and so sweet��
And I think that my life with delight will stand still
When we halt with the pleasant Barcoo at our feet。
Good´bye to the Barwon�察�and brigalow scrubs��
Adieu to the Culgo��ranges��
But look for the mulga and salt´bitten shrubs��
Though the face of the forest´land changes。
The leagues we may travel down beds of hot gravel��
And clay´crusted reaches where moisture hath been��
While searching for waters�察�may vex us and thwart us��
Yet who would be quailing�察�or fainting�察�or failing��
Not you�察�who are men of the Narran�察�I ween��
When we leave the dry channels away to the south��
And reach the far plains we are journeying to��
We will cry�察�though our lips may be glued with the drouth��
Hip�察�hip�察�and hurrah for the pleasant Barcoo��
BELLS BEYOND THE FOREST
WILD´EYED woodlands�察�here I rest me�察�underneath the gaunt and ghastly trees��
Underneath fantastic´fronted caverns crammed with many a muffled breeze。
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Far away from dusky towns and cities twinkling with the feet of men��
Listening to a sound of mellow music fleeting down the gusty glen��
Sitting by a rapid torrent�察�with the broken sunset in my face��
By a rapid�察�roaring torrent�察�tumbling through a dark and lonely place��
And I hear the bells beyond the forest�察�and the voice of distant streams��
And a flood of swelling singing�察�wafting round a world of ruined dreams。
Like to one who watches daylight dying from a lofty mountain spire��
When the autumn splendour scatters like a gust of faintly´gleaming fire��
So the silent spirit looketh through a mist of faded smiles and tears��
While across it stealeth all the sad and sweet divinity of years ´
All the scenes of shine and shadow�察�light and darkness sleeping side by side
When my heart was wedded to existence�察�as a bridegroom to his bride��
While I travelled gaily onward with the vapours crowding in my wake��
Deeming that the Present hid the glory where the promised Morn would break。
Like to one who�察�by the waters standing�察�marks the reeling ocean wave
Moaning�察�hide his head all torn and shivered underneath his lonely cave��
So the soul within me glances at the tides of Purpose where they creep��
Dashed to fragments by the yawning ridges circling Life's tempestuous Deep��
Oh� �the tattered leaves are dropping�察�dropping round me like a fall of rain��
While the dust of many a broken aspiration sweeps my troubled brain��
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With the yearnings after Beauty�察�and the longings to be good and great��
And the thoughts of catching Fortune�察�flying on the tardy wings of Fate。
Bells�察�beyond the forest chiming�察�where is all the inspiration now
That was wont to flush my forehead�察�and to chase the pallor from my brow��
Did I not�察�amongst these thickets�察�weave my thoughts and passions into rhyme��
Trusting that the words were golden�察�hoping for the praise of after´time��
Where have all those fancies fled to�拭�Can the fond delusion linger still��
When the Evening withers o'er me�察�and the night is creeping up the hill��
If the years of strength have left me�察�and my life begins to fail and fade��
Who will learn my simple ballads�察�who will stay to sing the songs I've made��
Bells�察�beyond the forest ringing�察�lo�察�I hasten to the world again��
For the sun has smote the empty windows�察�and the day is on the wane��
Hear I not a dreamy echo�察�soughing through the rafters of the tree��
Like a sound of stormy rivers�察�or the ravings of a restless sea��
Should I loiter here to listen�察�while this fitful wind is on the wing��
No�察�the heart of Time is sobbing�察�and my spirit is a withered thing��
Let the rapid torrents tumble�察�let the woodlands whistle in the blast��
Mighty minstrels sing behind me�察�but the promise of my youth is past。
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