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The snow lies deep on hill and dale	A
In rocky gulch and grassy vale	A
The tiny trickling tumbling falls	B
Are frozen 'twixt their rocky walls	B
That grey and brown look silent down	C
Upon Kiandra's shrouded town	C
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The Eucumbene itself lies dead	D
Fast frozen in its narrow bed	D
And distant sounds ring out quite near	E
The crystal air is froze so clear	E
While to and fro the people go	F
In silent swiftness o'er the snow	F
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And like a mighty gallows frame	G
The derrick in the New Chum claim	G
Hangs over where despite the cold	H
Strong miners seek the hidden gold	H
And stiff and blue half frozen through	I
The fickle dame of Fortune woo	I
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Far out along a snow capped range	J
There rose a sound which echoed strange	J
Where snow emburthen'd branches hang	K
And flashing icicles there rang	K
A gay refrain as towards the plain	L
Sped swiftly downward Carl the Dane	L
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His long lithe snow shoes sped along	M
In easy rhythm to his song	M
Now slowly circling round the hill	N
Now speeding downward with a will	N
The crystals crash and blaze and flash	O
As o'er the frozen crust they dash	O
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Among the hills the first he shone	P
Of all who buckled snow shoe on	Q
For though the mountain lads were fleet	R
But one bold rival dare compete	R
To veer and steer devoid of fear	E
Beside this strong limbed mountaineer	E
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'Twas Davy Eccleston who dared	S
To cast the challenge If Carl cared	S
On shoes to try their mutual pace	T
Then let him enter for the race	T
Which might be run by anyone	U
A would be champion Carl said Done	U
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But not alone in point of speed	V
They sought to gain an equal meed	V
For in the narrow lists of love	W
Dave Eccleston had cast the glove	W
Though both had prayed the blushing maid	V
As yet no preference betrayed	V
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But played them off as women will	N
One 'gainst the other one until	N
A day when she was sorely pressed	V
To loving neither youth confessed	V
But did exclaim the wily dame	G
Who wins this race I'll bear his name	G
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These words were running through Carl's head	V
As o'er the frozen crust he sped	V
But suddenly became aware	X
That not alone he travelled there	X
He sudden spied with swinging stride	V
A stranger speeding by his side	V
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The breezes o'er each shoulder toss d	V
His beard bediamonded with frost	V
His eyes flashed strangely bushy browed	V
His breath hung round him like a shroud	V
He never spoke nor silence broke	Y
But by the Dane sped stroke for stroke	Y
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Old man I neither know your name	G
Nor what you are nor whence you came	G
But this if I but had your shoes	Z
This championship I ne'er could lose	Z
To call them mine those shoes divine	A2
I'll gladly pay should you incline	A2
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The stranger merely bowed his head	V
The shoes are yours he gruffly said	V
I change with you though at a loss	B2
And in return I ask that cross	B2
Which while she sung your mother hung	C2
Around your neck when you were young	C2
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Carl hesitated when he heard	V
The price but not for long demurred	V
And gave the cross the shoes were laced	V
Upon his feet in trembling haste	V
So long and light smooth polished bright	V
His heart beat gladly at the sight	V
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Now on the morning of the race	T
Expectancy on every face	T
They come the programme to fulfil	N
Upon the slope of Township Hill	N
With silent feet the people meet	V
While youths and maidens laughing greet	V
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High piled the flashing snowdrifts lie	N
And laugh to scorn the sun's dull eye	N
That glistening feebly seems to say	D2
When Summer comes you'll melt away	D2
You'll change your song when I grow strong	M
I think so though I may be wrong	M
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The pistol flashed and off they went	V
Like lightning on the steep descent	V
Resistlessly down swooping swift	V
O'er the smooth face of polished drift	V
The racers strain with might and main	L
But in the lead flies Carl the Dane	L
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Behind him Davy did his best	V
With hopeless eye and lip compressed	V
Beat by a snow shoe length at most	V
They flash and pass the winning post	V
The maiden said I'll gladly wed	V
The youth who in this race has led	V
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But where was he still speeding fast	V
Over the frozen stream he pass d	V
They watched his flying form until	N
They lost it over Sawyer's Hill	N
Nor saw it more the people swore	E2
The like they'd never seen before	E2
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The way he scaled that steep ascent	V
Was quite against all precedent	V
While others said he could but choose	Z
To do it on those demon shoes	Z
They talked in vain for Carl the Dane	L
Was never seen in flesh again	F2
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But now the lonely diggers say	D2
That sometimes at the close of day	D2
They see a misty wraith flash by	N
With the faint echo of a cry	N
It may be true perhaps they do	V
I doubt it much but what say you	V

Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake

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