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酔楯荷恬: 梓囚徒貧圭�鮗� ○ 賜 ★ 辛酔堀貧和鍬匈 梓囚徒貧議 Enter 囚辛指欺云慕朕村匈 梓囚徒貧圭�鮗� ● 辛指欺云匈競何! 泌惚云慕短嗤堋響頼���誅卒亮茂�俊彭堋響��辛聞喘貧圭 "辺茄欺厘議箝誓匂" 孔嬬 才 "紗秘慕禰" 孔嬬��
For I know by the cheeks�察�which are pallid and wet��
And a listening life we shall mingle yet��
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Oh� �then I will turn to those eloquent eyes��
And clasp thee close�察�with a sweet surprise��
And a guest will go in by the heart's holy door��
And the chambers of Love shall be left no more。
THE OPOSSUM´HUNTERS
HEAR ye not the waters beating where the rapid rivers�察�meeting
With the winds above them fleeting�察�hurry to the distant seas��
And a smothered sound of singing from old Ocean upwards springing��
Sending hollow echoes ringing like a wailing on the breeze��
For the tempest round us brewing�察�cometh with the clouds pursuing��
And the bright Day�察�like a ruin�察�crumbles from the mournful trees。
When the thunder ceases pealing�察�and the stars up heaven are stealing��
And the Moon above us wheeling throws her pleasant glances round��
From our homes we boldly sally 'neath the trysting tree to rally��
For a night´hunt up the valley�察�with our brothers and the hound��
Through a wild´eyed Forest�察�staring at the light above it glaring��
We will travel�察�little caring for the dangers where we bound。
Twisted boughs shall tremble o'er us�察�hollow woods shall moan before us��
And the torrents like a chorus down the gorges dark shall sing��
And the vines shall shake and shiver�察�and the startled grasses quiver��
Like the reeds beside a river in the gusty days of Spring��
While we forward haste delighted�察�through a region seldom lighted ´
Souls impatient�察�hearts excited ´ like a wind upon the wing��
Oh� �the solemn tones of Ocean�察�like the language of devotion��
Or a voice of deep emotion�察�wander round the evening scene。
Oh� �the ragged shadows cluster where�察�my brothers�察�we must muster
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Ere the warm moon lends her lustre to the cedars darkly green��
And the lights like flowers shall blossom�察�in high Heaven's kindly bosom��
While we hunt the wild opossum�察�underneath its leafy screen��
Underneath the woven bowers�察�where the gloomy night´hawk cowers��
Through a lapse of dreamy hours�察�in a stirless solitude��
And the hound ´ that close beside us still will stay whate'er betide us ´
Through a 'wildering waste shall guide us ´
through a maze where few intrude��
Till the game is chased to cover�察�till the stirring sport is over��
Till we bound�察�each happy rover�察�homeward down the laughing wood。
Oh�察�the joy in wandering thither�察�when fond friends are all together
And our souls are like the weather ´ cloudless�察�clear and fresh and free��
Let the sailor sing the story of the ancient ocean's glory��
Forests golden�察�mountains hoary ´ can he look and love like we��
Sordid worldling�察�haunt thy city with that heart so hard and gritty��
There are those who turn with pity when they turn to think of thee��
IN THE DEPTHS OF THE FOREST
IN the depths of a Forest secluded and wild��
The night voices whisper in passionate numbers��
And I'm leaning again�察�as I did when a child��
O'er the grave where my father so quietly slumbers。
The years have rolled by with a thundering sound
But I knew�察�O ye woodlands�察�affection would know it��
And the spot which I stand on is sanctified ground
By the love that I bear to him sleeping below it。
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Oh� �well may the winds with a saddening moan
Go fitfully over the branches so dreary��
And well may I kneel by the time´shattered stone��
And rejoice that a rest has been found for the weary。
TO CHARLES HARPUR
I WOULD sit at your feet for long days��
To hear the sweet Muse of the Wild
Speak out through the sad and the passionate lays
Of her first and her favourite Child。
I would sit at your feet�察�for my soul
Delights in the solitudes free��
And I stand where the creeks and the cataracts roll
Whensoever I listen to thee��
I would sit at your feet�察�for I love
By the gulches and torrents to roam��
And I long in this city for woodland and grove��
And the peace of a wild forest home。
I would sit at your feet�察�and we'd dwell
On the scenes of a long´vanished time��
While your thoughts into music would surge and would swell
Like a breeze of our beautiful clime。
I would sit at your feet�察�for I know��
Though the World in the Present be blind��
That the amaranth blossoms of Promise will blow
When the Ages have left you behind。
I would sit at your feet�察�for I feel
I am one of a glorious band
That ever will own you and hold you their Chief��
And a Monarch of Song in the land��
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THE RIVER AND THE HILL
And they shook their sweetness out in their sleep��
On the brink of that beautiful stream��
But it wandered along with a wearisome song
Like a lover that walks in a dream��
So the roses blew
When the winds went through��
In the moonlight so white and so still��
But the river it beat
All night at the feet
Of a cold and flinty hill ´
Of a hard and senseless hill��
I said�察 �`We have often showered our loves
Upon something as dry as the dust��
And the faith that is crost�察�and the hearts that are lost ´
Oh� �how can we wittingly trust��
Like the stream which flows��
And wails as it goes��
Through the moonlight so white and so still��
To beat and to beat
All night at the feet
Of a cold and flinty hill ´
Of a hard and senseless hill��
``River�察�I stay where the sweet roses blow��
And drink of their pleasant perfumes��
Oh�察�why do you moan�察�in this wide world alone��
When so much affection here blooms��
The winds wax faint��
And the Moon like a Saint
Glides over the woodlands so white and so still��
But you beat and you beat
All night at the feet
Of that cold and flinty hill ´
Of that hard and senseless hill��''
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THE FATE OF THE EXPLORERS
��A Fragment��
SET your face toward the darkness ´ tell of deserts weird and wide��
Where unshaken woods are huddled�察�and low�察�languid waters glide��
Turn and tell of deserts lonely�察�lying pathless�察�deep and vast��
Where in utter silence ever Time seems slowly breathing past ´
Silence only broken when the sun is flecked with cloudy bars��
Or when tropic squalls come hurtling underneath the sultry stars��
Deserts thorny�察�hot and thirsty�察�where the feet of men are strange��
And eternal Nature sleeps in solitudes which know no change。
Weakened with their lengthened labours�察�past long plains of stone and sand��
Down those trackless wilds they wandered�察�travellers from a far´off land��
Seeking now to join their brothers�察�struggling on with faltering feet��
For a glorious work was finished�察�and a noble task complete。
And they dreamt of welcome faces ´ dreamt that soon unto their ears
Friendly greetings would be thronging�察�with a nation's well´earned cheers��
Since their courage never failed them�察�but with high�察�unflinching soul
Each was pressing forward�察�hoping�察�trusting all should reach the goal。
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Though he rallied in the morning�察�long before the close of day
He had sunk�察�the worn´out hero�察�fainting�察�dying by the way��
But with Death he wrestled hardly�察�three times rising from the sod��
Yet a little further onward o'er the weary waste he trod。
Facing Fate with heart undaunted�察�still the chief would totter on
Till the evening closed about him ´ till the strength to move was gone��
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Then he penned his latest writings�察�and�察�before his life was spent��
Gave the records to his comrade ´ gave the watch he said was lent ´
Gave them with his last commandments�察�charging him that night to stay
And to let him lie unburied when the soul had passed away。
Through that night he uttered little�察�rambling were the words he spoke��
And he turned and died in silence�察�when the tardy morning broke。
Many memories come together whilst in sight of death we dwell��
Much of sweet and sad reflection through the weary mind must well。
As those long hours glided past him�察�till the east with light was fraught��
Who may know the mournful secret ´ who can tell us what he thought��
Very lone and very wretched was the brave man left behind��
Wandering over leagues of waste´land�察�seeking�察�hoping help to find��
Sleeping in deserted wurleys�察�fearful many nightfalls through
Lest unfriendly hands should rob him of his hoard of wild nardoo。
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Ere he reached their old encampment ´ ere the well´known spot was gained��
Something nerved him ´ something whispered that his other chief remained。
So he searched for food to give him�察�trusting they might both survive
Till the aid so long expected from the cities should arrive��
So he searched for food and took it to the gunyah where he found
Silence broken by his footfalls ´ death and darkness on the ground。
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