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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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