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Only once since Eve went weeping through a throng of glittering wings��
Hath the holy seen Hy´Brasil where the great gold river sings��
Only once by quiet waters�察�under still�察�resplendent skies��
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Did the sister of the seraphs kneel in sight of Paradise��
She�察�the pure�察�the perfect woman�察�sanctified by patient prayer��
Had the eyes of saints of Heaven�察�all their glory in her hair��
Therefore God the Father whispered to a radiant spirit near ´
``Show Our daughter fair Hy´Brasil ´ show her this�察�and lead her here。''
But beyond the halls of sunset�察�but within the wondrous west��
On the rose´red seas of evening�察�sails the Garden of the Blest。
Still the gates of glassy beauty�察�still the walls of glowing light��
Shine on waves that no man knows of�察�out of sound and out of sight。
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Yet the slopes and lawns of lustre�察�yet the dells of sparkling streams��
Dip to tranquil shores of jasper�察�where the watching angel beams。
But�察�behold�察�our eyes are human�察�and our way is paved with pain��
We can never find Hy´Brasil�察�never see its hills again��
Never look on bays of crystal�察�never bend the reverent knee
In the sight of Eden floating ´ floating on the sapphire sea��
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JIM THE SPLITTER
The bard who is singing of Wollombi Jim
Is hardly just now in the requisite trim
To sit on his Pegasus fairly��
Besides�察�he is bluntly informed by the Muse
That Jim is a subject no singer should choose��
For Jim is poetical rarely。
But being full up of the myths that are Greek ´
Of the classic�察�and ``noble�察�and nude�察�and antique��''
Which means not a rag but the pelt on��
This poet intends to give Daphne the slip��
For the sake of a hero in moleskin and kip��
With a jumper and snake´buckle belt on。
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No party is Jim of the Pericles type ´
He is modern right up from the toe to the pipe��
And being no reader or roamer��
He hasn't Euripides much in the head��
And let it be carefully�察�tenderly said��
He never has analysed Homer。
He can roar out a song of the twopenny kind��
But�察�knowing the beggar so well�察�I'm inclined
To believe that a ``par'' about Kelly��
The rascal who skulked under shadow of curse��
Is more in his line than the happiest verse
On the glittering pages of Shelley。
You mustn't�察�however�察�adjudge him in haste��
Because a red robber is more to his taste
Than Ruskin�察�Rossetti�察�or Dante��
You see�察�he was bred in a bangalow wood��
And bangalow pith was the principal food
His mother served out in her shanty。
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His knowledge is this ´ he can tell in the dark
What timber will split by the feel of the bark��
And rough as his manner of speech is��
His wits to the fore he can readily bring
In passing off ash as the genuine thing
When scarce in the forest the beech is。
In girthing a tree that he sells ``in the round��''
He assumes�察�as a rule�察�that the body is sound��
And measures�察�forgetting to bark it��
He may be a ninny�察�but still the old dog
Can plug to perfection the pipe of a log
And ``palm it'' away on the market。
He splits a fair shingle�察�but holds to the rule
Of his father's�察�and�察�haply�察�his grandfather's school��
Which means that he never has blundered��
When tying his shingles�察�by slinging in more
Than the recognized number of ninety and four
To the bundle he sells for a hundred��
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When asked by the market for ironbark red��
It always occurs to the Wollombi head
To do a ``mahogany'' swindle。
In forests where never the ironbark grew��
When Jim is at work�察�it would flabbergast you
To see how the ``ironbarks'' dwindle。
He can stick to the saddle�察�can Wollombi Jim��
And when a buckjumper dispenses with him��
The leather goes off with the rider。
And�察�as to a team�察�over gully and hill
He can travel with twelve on the breadth of a quill
And boss the unlucky ``offsider。''
He shines at his best at the tiller of saw��
On the top of the pit�察�where his whisper is law
To the gentleman working below him。
When the pair of them pause in a circle of dust��
Like a monarch he poses ´ exalted�察�august ´
There's nothing this planet can show him��
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For a man is a man who can ``sharpen'' and ``set��''
And he is the only thing masculine yet
According to sawyer and splitter ´
Or rather according to Wollombi Jim��
And nothing will tempt me to differ from him��
For Jim is a bit of a hitter。
But�察�being full up�察�we'll allow him to rip��
Along with his lingo�察�his saw�察�and his whip ´
He isn't the classical ``notion��''
And�察�after a night in his ``humpy��'' you see��
A person of orthodox habits would be
Refreshed by a dip in the ocean。
To tot him right up from the heel to the head��
He isn't the Grecian of whom we have read ´
His face is a trifle too shady。
The nymph in green valleys of Thessaly dim
Would never ``jack up'' her old lover for him��
For she has the tastes of a lady。
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So much for our hero� �A statuesque foot
Would suffer by wearing that heavy´nailed boot ´
Its owner is hardly Achilles。
However�察�he's happy� �He cuts a great ``fig''
In the land where a coat is no part of the ``rig'' ´
In the country of damper and ``billies。''
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MOONI
��Written in the Shadow of 1872��
AH�察�to be by Mooni now��
Where the great dark hills of wonder��
Scarred with storm and cleft asunder
By the strong sword of the thunder��
Make a night on morning's brow��
Just to stand where Nature's face is
Flushed with power in forest places ´
Where of God authentic trace is ´
Ah�察�to be by Mooni now��
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Just to be by Mooni's springs��
There to stand�察�the shining sharer
Of that larger life�察�and rarer
Beauty caught from beauty fairer
Than the human face of things��
Soul of mine from sin abhorrent
Fain would hide by flashing current��
Like a sister of the torrent��
Far away by Mooni's springs。
He that is by Mooni now��
Sees the water´sapphires gleaming
Where the River Spirit�察�dreaming��
Sleeps by fall and fountain streaming
Under lute of leaf and bough ´
Hears�察�where stamp of storm with stress is��
Psalms from unseen wildernesses
Deep amongst far hill´recesses ´
He that is by Mooni now。
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Yea�察�for him by Mooni's marge
Sings the yellow´haired September��
With the face the gods remember
When the ridge is burnt to ember��
And the dumb sea chains the barge��
Where the mount like molten brass is��
Down beneath fern´feathered passes��
Noonday dew in cool green grasses
Gleams on him by Mooni's marge。
Who that dwells by Mooni yet��
Feels�察�in flowerful forest arches��
Smiting wings and breath that parches
Where strong Summer's path of march is��
And the suns in thunder set��
Housed beneath the gracious kirtle
Of the shadowy water myrtle��
Winds may hiss with heat�察�and hurtle ´
He is safe by Mooni yet��
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Days there were when he who sings
��Dumb so long through passion's losses��
Stood where Mooni's water crosses
Shining tracts of green´haired mosses��
Like a soul with radiant wings��
Then the psalm the wind rehearses ´
Then the song the stream disperses
Lent a beauty to his verses��
Who to´night of Mooni sings。
Ah�察�the theme ´ the sad�察�grey theme��
Certain days are not above me��
Certain hearts have ceased to love me��
Certain fancies fail to move me
Like the affluent morning dream。
Head whereon the white is stealing��
Heart whose hurts are past all healing��
Where is now the first pure feeling��
Ah�察�the theme ´ the sad�察�grey theme��
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Sin and shame have left their trace��
He who mocks the mighty�察�gracious
Love of Christ�察�with eyes audacious��
Hunting after fires fallacious��
Wears the issue in his face。
Soul that flouted gift and Giver��
Like the broken Persian river��
Thou hast lost thy strength for ever��
Sin and shame have left their trace。
In the years that used to be��
When the large�察�supreme occasion
Brought the life of inspiration��
Like a god's transfiguration
Was the shining change in me。
Then�察�where Mooni's glory glances��
Clear�察�diviner countenances
Beamed on me like blessed chances��
In the years that used to be。
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Ah�察�the beauty of old ways��
Then the man who so resembled
Lords of light unstained�察�unhumbled��
Touched the skirts of Christ�察�nor trembled
At the grand benignant gaze��
Now he shrinks before the splendid
Face of Deity offended��
All the loveliness is ended��
All the beauty of old ways��
Still to be by Mooni cool ´
Where the water´blossoms glister��
And�察�by gleaming vale and vista��
Sits the English April's sister
Soft and sweet and wonderful。
Just to rest beyond the burning
Outer world ´ its sneers and spurning ´
Ah� �my heart ´ my heart is yearning
Still to be by Mooni cool��
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Now�察�by Mooni's fair hill heads��
Lo�察�the gold green lights are glowing��
Where�察�because no wind is blowing��
Fancy hears the flowers growing
In the herby watersheds��
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