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     Lived in the pitchy Pagan age��
         A life without pretension。


     He may have worshipped gods like Zeus��
         And termed old Dis a master��
     But then he had a strong excuse ´
         He never heard a pastor。


     However�察�it occurs to me
         That�察�had he cut Demeter
     And followed you�察�or followed me��
         He wouldn't have been sweeter。


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     No doubt with ``shepherds'' of this time
         He's not the ``clean potato''��
     Because ´ excuse me for my rhyme ´
         He pinned his faith to Plato。


     But these are facts you can't deny��
         My pastor�察�smudged and sooty��
     His mind was like a summer sky ´
         He lived a life of beauty ´


     To lift his brothers' thoughts above
         This earth he used to labour��
     His heart was luminous with love ´
         He didn't wound his neighbour。


     To him all men were just the same ´
         He never foamed at altars��
     Although he lived ere Moody came ´
         Ere Sankey dealt in psalters。


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     The Lycian sage�察�my ``reverend'' sir��
         Had not your chances ample��
     But�察�after all�察�I must prefer
         His perfect�察�pure example。


     You�察�having read the Holy Writ ´
         The Book the angels foster ´
     Say have you helped us on a bit��
         You overfed impostor��


     What have you done to edify��
         You clammy chapel tinker��
     What act like his of days gone by ´
         The grand old Asian thinker��


     Is there no deed of yours at all
         With beauty shining through it��
     Ah�察�no� �your heart reveals its gall
         On every side I view it。


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     A blatant bigot with a big
         Fat heavy fetid carcass��
     You well become your greasy ``rig'' ´
         You're not a second Arcas。


     What sort of ``gospel'' do you preach��
         What ``Bible'' is your Bible��
     There's worse than wormwood in your speech��
         You livid�察�living libel��


     How many lives are growing gray
         Through your depraved behaviour��
     I tell you plainly ´ every day
         You crucify the Saviour��


     Some evil spirit curses you ´
         Your actions never vary��
     You cannot point your finger to
         One fact to the contrary。


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     You seem to have a wicked joy
         In your malicious labour��
     Endeavouring daily to destroy
         The neighbour's love for neighbour。


     The brutal curses you eject
         Make strong men dread to hear you。
     The world outside your petty sect
         Feels sick when it is near you。


     No man who shuns that little hole
         You call your tabernacle
     Can have�察�you shriek�察�a ransomed soul ´
         He wears the devil's shackle。


     And�察�hence the ``Papist'' by your clan
         Is dogged with words inhuman��
     Because he loves that friend of man
         The highest type of woman ´


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     Because he has that faith which sees
         Before the high Creator
     A Virgin pleading on her knees ´
         A shining Mediator��


     God help the souls who grope in night ´
         Who in your ways have trusted��
     I've said enough� �the more I write��
         The more I feel disgusted。


     The warm�察�soft air is tainted through
         With your pernicious leaven。
     I would not live one hour with you
         In your peculiar heaven��


     Now mount your musty pulpit ´ thump��
         And muddle flat clodhoppers��
     And let some long´eared booby ``hump''
         The plate about for coppers。


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     At priest and parson spit and bark��
         And shake your ``church'' with curses��
     You bitter blackguard of the dark ´
         With this I close my verses。


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NAMES UPON A STONE

��INSCRIBED TO G。L。FAGAN�察�ESQ。��


     ACROSS bleak widths of broken sea
         A fierce north´easter breaks��
     And makes a thunder on the lea ´
         A whiteness of the lakes。
     Here�察�while beyond the rainy stream
         The wild winds sobbing blow��
     I see the river of my dream
         Four wasted years ago。


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     Narrara of the waterfalls��
         The darling of the hills��
     Whose home is under mountain walls
         By many´luted rills��
     Her bright green nooks and channels cool
         I never more may see��
     But�察�ah� �the Past was beautiful ´
         The sights that used to be。


     There was a rock´pool in a glen
         Beyond Narrara's sands��
     The mountains shut it in from men
         In flowerful fairy lands��
     But once we found its dwelling´place ´
         The lovely and the lone ´
     And�察�in a dream�察�I stooped to trace
         Our names upon a stone。


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     Above us�察�where the star´like moss
         Shone on the wet�察�green wall
     That spanned the straitened stream across��
         We saw the waterfall ´
     A silver singer far away��
         By folded hills and hoar��
     Its voice is in the woods to´day ´
         A voice I hear no more。


     I wonder if the leaves that screen
         The rock´pool of the past
     Are yet as soft and cool and green
         As when we saw them last��
     I wonder if that tender thing��
         The moss�察�has overgrown
     The letters by the limpid spring ´
         Our names upon the stone��


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     Across the face of scenes we know
         There may have come a change ´
     The places seen four years ago
         Perhaps would now look strange。
     To you�察�indeed�察�they cannot be
         What haply once they were��
     A friend beloved by you and me
         No more will greet us there。


     Because I know the filial grief
         That shrinks beneath the touch ´
     The noble love whose words are brief ´
         I will not say too much��
     But often when the night´winds strike
         Across the sighing rills��
     I think of him whose life was like
         The rock´pool's in the hills。


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     A beauty like the light of song
         Is in my dreams�察�that show
     The grand old man who lived so long
         As spotless as the snow。
     A fitting garland for the dead
         I cannot compass yet��
     But many things he did and said
         I never will forget。


     In dells where once we used to rove
         The slow�察�sad water grieves��
     And ever comes from glimmering grove
         The liturgy of leaves。
     But time and toil have marked my face��
         My heart has older grown
     Since�察�in the woods�察�I stooped to trace
         Our names upon the stone。


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LEICHHARDT


     LORDLY harp�察�by lordly master wakened from majestic sleep��
     Yet shall speak and yet shall sing the words which make the fathers weep��
     Voice surpassing human voices ´ high�察�unearthly harmony ´
     Yet shall tell the tale of hero�察�in exalted years to be��
     In the ranges�察�by the rivers�察�on the uplands�察�down the dells��
     Where the sound of wind and wave is�察�where the mountain anthem swells��

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     Yet shall float the song of lustre�察�sweet with tears and fair with flame��
     Shining with a theme of beauty�察�holy with our Leichhardt's name��
     Name of him who faced for science thirsty tracts of bitter glow��
     Lurid lands that no one knows of ´ two´and´thirty years ago。


     Born by hills of hard grey weather�察�far beyond the northern seas��
     German mountains were his sponsors�察�and his mates were German trees��
     Grandeur of the old´world forests passed into his radiant soul��
     With the song of stormy crescents where the mighty waters roll。
     Thus he came to be a brother of the river and the wood ´

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     Thus the leaf�察�the bird�察�the blossom�察�grew a gracious sisterhood��
     Nature led him to her children�察�in a space of light divine��
     Kneeling down�察�he said ´ ``My mother�察�let me be as one of thine��''
     So she took him ´ thence she loved him ´ lodged him in her home of dreams��
     Taught him what the trees were saying�察�schooled him in the speech of streams。


     For her sake he crossed the waters ´ loving her�察�he left the place
     Hallowed by his father's ashes�察�and his human mother's face ´
     Passed the seas and entered temples domed by skies of deathless beam��
     Walled about by hills majestic�察�stately spires and peaks supreme��

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     Here he found a larger beauty ´ here the lovely lights were new
     On the slopes of many flowers�察�down the gold´green dells of dew。
     In the great august cathedral of his holy lady�察�he
     Daily worshipped at her altars�察�nightly bent the reverent knee ´
     Heard the hymns of night and morning�察�learned the psalm of solitudes��
     Knew that God was very near him ´ felt His presence in the woods��


     But the starry angel�察�Science�察�from the home of glittering wings��
     Came one day and talked to Nature by melodious mountain springs��
     ``Let thy son be mine��'' she pleaded�察 �`lend him for a space��'' she said��

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     ``So that he may earn the laurels I have woven for his head��''
     And the lady�察�Nature�察�listened�察�and she took her loyal son
     From the banks of moss and myrtle ´ led him to the Shining One��
     Filled his lordly soul with gladness ´ told him of a spacious zone
     Eye of man had never looked at�察�human foot had never known。
     Then the angel�察�Science�察�beckoned�察�and he knelt and whispered low ´
     ``I will follow where you lead me'' ´ two´and´thirty years ago。


     On the tracts of thirst and furnace ´ on the dumb�察�blind�察�burning plain��
     Where the red earth gapes for moisture�察�and the wan leaves hiss for rain��

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     In a land of dry�察�fierce thunder�察�did he ever pause and dream
     Of the cool green German valley and the singing German stream��
     When the sun was as a menace�察�glaring from a sky of brass��
     Did he ever rest�察�in visions�察�on a lap of German grass��
     Past the waste of thorny terrors�察�did he reach a sphere of rills��
     In a region yet unt
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