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Bob couldn't manage to think ´
He had forgotten their name。
God was in heaven above��
Flowers illumined the ground��
Women of infinite love
Lived in the palaces round ´
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Saints with the character sweet
Found in the fathers of old��
Laboured in alley and street ´
Baby slept out in the cold。
Nobody noticed the child ´
Nobody knew of the mite
Creeping about like a wild
Thing in the shadow of night。
Beaten by drunkards and cowed ´
Frightened to speak or to sob ´
How could he ask you aloud��
``Have you a penny for Bob��''
Few were the pennies he got ´
Seldom could hide them away��
Watched by the ravenous sot
Ever at wait for his prey。
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Poor little man� �He would weep
Oft for a morsel of bread��
Coppers he wanted to keep
Went to the tavern instead。
This was his history�察�friend ´
Ragged�察�unhoused�察�and alone��
How could the child comprehend
Love that he never had known��
Hunted about in the world��
Crouching in crevices dim��
Crust with a curse at him hurled
Stood for a kindness with him。
Little excited his joy ´
Bun after doing a job��
Mother of bright´headed boy��
Think of the motherless Bob��
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High in the heavens august
Providence saw him�察�and said ´
``Out of the pits of the dust
Lift him�察�and cover his head。''
Ah�察�the ineffable grace��
Father of children�察�in Thee��
Boy in a radiant place��
Fanned by the breeze of the sea ´
Child on a lullaby lap
Said�察�in the pause of his pain��
``Mother�察�don't bury my cap ´
Give it to Bob in the lane。''
Beautiful bidding of Death��
What could she do but obey��
Even when suffering Faith
Hadn't the power to pray��
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So�察�in the fall of the year��
Saint with the fatherly head
Hunted for somebody's dear ´
``Somebody's darling��'' he said。
Bob�察�who was nobody's child��
Sitting on nobody's lap��
Draggled and dirty and wild ´
Bob got the little one's cap。
Strange were compassionate words��
Waif of the alley and lane
Dreamed of the music of birds
Floating about in the rain。
White´headed father in God��
Over thy beautiful grave
Green is the grass of the sod��
Soft is the sound of the wave。
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Down by the slopes of the sea
Often and often will sob
Boy who was fostered by thee ´
This is the story of Bob。
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PETER THE PICANINNY
HE has a name which can't be brought
Within the sphere of metre��
But�察�as he's Peter by report��
I'll trot him out as Peter。
I call him mine�察�but don't suppose
That I'm his dad�察�O reader��
My wife has got a Norman nose ´
She reads the tales of Ouida。
I never loved a nigger belle ´
My tastes are too aesthetic��
The perfume from a gin is ´ well��
A rather strong emetic。
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But�察�seeing that my theme is Pete��
This verse will be the neater
If I keep on the proper beat��
And stick throughout to Peter。
We picked him up the Lord knows where��
At noon we came across him
Asleep beside a hunk of bear ´
His paunch was bulged with 'possum。
��Last stanza will not bear�察�I own��
A pressure analytic��
But bard whose weight is fourteen stone��
Is apt to thump the critic。��
We asked the kid to give his name��
He didn't seem too willing ´
The darkey played the darkey's game ´
We tipped him with a shilling��
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We tipped him with a shining bob ´
No Tommy Dodd�察�believe us。
We didn't ``tumble'' to his job ´
Ah�察�why did Pete deceive us��
I�察�being�察�as I've said�察�a bard��
Resolved at once to foster
This mite whose length was just a yard ´
This portable impostor��
``This babe'' ´ I spoke in Wordsworth's tone ´
��See Wordsworth's ``Lucy''�察�neighbour��
``I'll make a darling of my own��
And he'll repay my labour。
``He'll grow as gentle as a fawn ´
As quiet as the blossoms
That beautify a land of lawn ´
He'll eat no more opossums。
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``The child I to myself will take
In a paternal manner��
And ah� �he will not swallow snake
In future�察�or `goanna'。
``Will you reside with me�察�my dear��''
I asked in accents mellow ´
The nigger grinned from ear to ear��
And said�察 �`All right�察�old fellow��''
And so my Pete was taken home ´
My pretty piccaninny��
And�察�not to speak of soap or comb��
His cleansing cost a guinea。
``But hang expenses��'' I exclaimed��
``I'll give him education��
A `nig' is better when he's tamed��
Perhaps�察�than a Caucasian。
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``Ethnologists are in the wrong
About our sable brothers��
And I intend to stop the song
Of Pickering and others。''
Alas�察�I didn't do it though��
Old Pickering's conclusions
Were to the point�察�as issues show��
And mine were mere delusions。
My inky pet was clothed and fed
For months exceeding forty��
But to the end�察�it must be said��
His ways were very naughty。
When told about the Land of Morn
Above this world of Mammon��
He'd shout�察�with an emphatic scorn��
``Ah�察�gammon�察�gammon�察�gammon��''
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He never lingered�察�like the bard��
To sniff at rose expanding。
``Me like��'' he said�察 �`em cattle´yard ´
Fine smell ´ de smell of branding��''
The soul of man�察�I tried to show��
Went up beyond our vision。
``You ebber see dat fellow go��''
He asked in sheer derision。
In short�察�it soon occurred to me
This kid of six or seven��
Who wouldn't learn his A B C��
Was hardly ripe for heaven。
He never lost his appetite ´
He bigger grew�察�and bigger��
And proved�察�with every inch of height��
A nigger is a nigger。
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And�察�looking from this moment back��
I have a strong persuasion
That�察�after all�察�a finished black
Is not the ``clean'' ´ Caucasian。
Dear Peter from my threshold went��
One morning in the body��
He ``dropped'' me�察�to oblige a gent ´
A gent with spear and waddy��
He shelved me for a boomerang ´
We never had a quarrel��
And�察�if a moral here doth hang��
Why let it hang ´ the moral��
My mournful tale its course has run ´
My Pete�察�when last I spied him��
Was eating 'possum underdone��
He had his gin beside him。
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NARRARA CREEK
��Written in the Shadow of 1872��
FROM the rainy hill´heads�察�where�察�in starts and in spasms��
Leaps wild the white torrent from chasms to chasms ´
From the home of bold echoes�察�whose voices of wonder
Fly out of blind caverns struck black by high thunder ´
Through gorges august�察�in whose nether recesses
Is heard the far psalm of unseen wildernesses ´
Like a dominant spirit�察�a strong´handed sharer
Of spoil with the tempest�察�comes down the Narrara。
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Yea�察�where the great sword of the hurricane cleaveth
The forested fells that the dark never leaveth ´
By fierce´featured crags�察�in whose evil abysses
The clammy snake coils�察�and the flat adder hisses ´
Past lordly rock temples�察�where Silence is riven
By the anthems supreme of the four winds of heaven ´
It speeds�察�with the cry of the streams of the fountains
It chained to its sides�察�and dragged down from the mountains��
But when it goes forth from the slopes with a sally ´
Being strengthened with tribute from many a valley ´
It broadens and brightens�察�and thereupon marches
Above the stream sapphires and under green arches��
With the rhythm of majesty ´ careless of cumber ´
Its might in repose and its fierceness in slumber ´
Till it beams on the plains�察�where the wind is a bearer
Of words from the sea to the stately Narrara��
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Narrara� �grand son of the haughty hill torrent��
Too late in my day have I looked at thy current ´
Too late in my life to discern and inherit
The soul of thy beauty�察�the joy of thy spirit��
With the years of the youth and the hairs of the hoary��
I sit like a shadow outside of thy glory��
Nor look with the morning´like feelings�察�O river��
That illumined the boy in the days gone for ever��
Ah� �sad are the sounds of old ballads which borrow
One´half of their grief from the listener's sorrow��
And sad are the eyes of the pilgrim who traces
The ruins of Time in revisited places��
But sadder than all is the sense of his losses
That cometh to one when a sudden age crosses
And cripples his manhood。 So�察�stricken by fate�察�I
Felt older at thirty than some do at eighty。
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Because I believe in the beautiful story��
The poem of Greece in the days of her glory ´
That the high´seated Lord of the woods and the waters
Has peopled His world with His deified daughters ´
That flowerful forests and waterways streaming
Are gracious with goddesses glowing and gleaming ´
I pray that thy singing divinity�察�fairer
Than wonderful women�察�may listen�察�Narrara��
O spirit of sea´going currents� � thou�察�being
The child of immortals�察�all´knowing�察�all´seeing ´
Thou hast at thy heart the dark truth that I borrow
For the song that I
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