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A MIDSUMMER NOON IN THE AUSTRALIAN FOREST	A
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Not a bird disturbs the air	B
There is quiet everywhere	B
Over plains and over woods	C
What a mighty stillness broods	C
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Even the grasshoppers keep	D
All the birds and insects keep	D
Where the coolest shadows sleep	D
Even the busy ants are found	E
Resting in their pebbled mound	E
Even the locust clingeth now	F
In silence to the barky bough	F
And over hills and over plains	C
Quiet vast and slumbrous reigns	C
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Only there's a drowsy humming	G
From yon warm lagoon slow coming	G
'Tis the dragon hornet see	C
All bedaubed resplendently	H
With yellow on a tawny ground	E
Each rich spot nor square nor round	E
But rudely heart shaped as it were	I
The blurred and hasty impress there	B
Of vermeil crusted seal	H
Dusted o'er with golden meal	H
Only there's a droning where	B
Yon bright beetle gleams the air	B
Gleams it in its droning flight	J
Tracks it in its gleaming flight	J
With a slanting track of light	J
Till rising in the sunshine higher	I
Rising in the sunshine higher	I
Its shards flame out like gems on fire	I
Till its shards flame out like fire	I
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Every other thing is still	H
Save the ever wakeful rill	H
Whose cool murmur only throws	C
A cooler comfort round Repose	C
Or some ripple in the sea	C
Of leafy boughs where lazily	C
Tired Summer in her forest bower	I
Turning with the noontide hour	I
Heaves a slumbrous breath ere she	C
Once more slumbers peacefully	C
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'tis easeful here to lie	H
Hidden from Noon's scorching eye	H
In this grassy cool recess	C
Musing thus of Quietness	C
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two versions of this poem have been located The relevant changes are included in the text in square brackets i e	C

Charles Harpur

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