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A lonely boy far venturing from home	A
Out on the half wild herd s faint tracks I roam	A
Mid rock browned mountains which with stony frown	B
Glare into haggard chasms deep adown	B
A rude and craggy world the prospect lies	C
Bounded in circuit by the bending skies	C
Now at some clear pool scooped out by the shocks	D
Of rain floods plunging from the upper rocks	D
Whose liquid disc in its undimpled rest	E
Glows like a mighty gem brooching the mountain s breast	E
I drink and must or mark the wide spread herd	F
Or list the thinking of the dingle bird	F
And now towards some wild hanging shade I stray	G
To shun the bright oppression of the day	G
For round each crag and o er each bosky swell	H
The fierce refracted heat flares visible	I
Lambently restless like the dazzling hem	J
Of some else viewless veil held trembling over them	J
Why congregate the swallows in the air	K
And northward then in rapid flight repair	K
With sudden swelling din remote yet harsh	L
Why roar the bull frogs in the tea tree marsh	L
Why cease the locusts to throng up in flight	M
And clap their gay wings in the fervent light	M
Why climb they bodingly demure instead	N
The tallest spear grass to the bending head	N
Instinctively along the sultry sky	O
I turn a listless yet inquiring eye	O
And mark that now with a slow gradual pace	P
A solemn trance creams northward o er its face	P
Yon clouds that late were labouring past the sun	B
Reached by its sure arrest one after one	B
Come to a heavy halt the airs that played	Q
About the rugged mountains all are laid	Q
While drawing nearer far off heights appear	R
As in a dream s wild prospect strangely near	R
Till into wood resolves their robe of blue	S
And the grey crags rise bluffly on the view	S
Such are the signs and tokens that presage	T
A summer hurricane s forthcoming rage	U
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At length the south sends out her cloudy heaps	V
And up the glens at noontide dimness creeps	V
The birds late warbling in the hanging green	B
Off steep set brakes seek now some safer screen	B
The herd in doubt no longer wanders wide	W
But fast ingathering throngs yon mountain s side	W
Whose echoes surging to its tramp might seem	X
The muttered troubles of some Titan s dream	X
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Fast the dim legions of the muttering storm	Y
Throng denser or protruding columns form	Y
While splashing forward from their cloudy lair	K
Convolving flames like scouting dragons glare	K
Low thunders follow labouring up the sky	O
And as fore running blasts go blaring by	O
At once the forest with a mighty stir	Z
Bows as in homage to the thunderer	Z
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Hark From the dingoes blood polluted dens	A2
In the gloom hidden chasms of the glens	A2
Long fitful howls wail up and in the blast	B2
Strange hissing whispers seem to huddle past	B2
As if the dread stir had aroused from sleep	C2
Weird spirits cloistered in yon cavy steep	C2
On which in the grim past some Cain s offence	A2
Hath haply outraged heaven Who rising thence	A2
Wrapped in the boding vapours laughed again	B
To wanton in the wild willed hurricane	B
See in the storm s front sailing dark and dread	N
A wide winged eagle like a black flag spread	N
The clouds aloft flash doom Short stops his flight	M
He seems to shrivel in the blasting light	M
The air is shattered with a crashing sound	D2
And he falls stonelike lifeless to the ground	D2
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Now like a shadow at great nature s heart	E2
The turmoil grows Now wonder with a start	E2
Marks where right overhead the storm careers	A2
Girt with black horrors and wide flaming fears	A2
Arriving thunders mustering on his path	F2
Swell more and more the roarings of his wrath	F2
As out in widening circles they extend	G2
And then at once in utter silence end	G2
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Portentous silence Time keeps breathing past	B2
Yet it continues May this marvel last	B2
This wild weird silence in the midst of gloom	H2
So manifestly big with coming doom	H2
Tingles the boding ear and up the glens	A2
Instinctive dread comes howling from the wild dogs dens	A2
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Terrific vision Heaven s great ceiling splits	A2
And a vast globe of writhing fire emits	A2
Which pouring down in one continuous stream	X
Spans the black concave like a burning beam	X
A moment then from end to end it shakes	A2
With a quick motion and in thunder breaks	A2
Peal rolled on peal While heralding the sound	D2
As each concussion thrills the solid ground	D2
Fierce glares coil snake like round the rocky wens	A2
Of the red hills or hiss into the glens	A2
Or thick through heaven like flaming falchions swarm	Y
Cleaving the teeming cisterns of the storm	Y
From which rain torrents searching every gash	I2
Split by the blast come sheeting with a dash	I2
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On yon grey peak from rock encrusted roots	A2
The mighty patriarch of the wood upshoots	A2
In whose proud spreading top s imperial height	M
The mountain eagle loveth most to light	M
Now dimly seen through the tempestuous air	Z
His form seems harrowed by a mad despair	Z
As with his ponderous arms uplifted high	O
He wrestles with the storm and threshes at the sky	O
A swift bolt hurtles through the lurid air	Z
Another thundering crash The peak is bare	Z
Huge hurrying fragments all around are cast	B2
The wild winged mad limbed monsters of the blast	B2
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The darkness thickens With despairing cry	O
From shattering boughs the rain drenched parrtos fly	O
Loose rocks roll rumbling from the mountains round	D2
And half the forest strews the smoking ground	D2
To the bared crags the blasts now wilder moan	B
And the caves labour with a ghostlier groan	B
Wide raging torrents down the gorges flow	J2
Swift bearing with them to the vale below	J2
Those sylvan wrecks that littered late the path	F2
Of the loud hurricane s all trampling wrath	F2
	-
The storm is past Yet booming on afar	Z
Is heard the rattling of the thunder car	Z
And that low muffled moaning as of grief	K2
Which follows with a wood sigh wide and brief	K2
The clouds break up the sun s forth bursting rays	A2
Clothe the wet landscape with a dazzling blaze	A2
The birds begin to sing a lively strain	B
And merry echoes ring it o er again	B
The clustered herd is spreading out to graze	A2
Though lessening torrents still a hundred ways	A2
Flash downward and from many a rock ledge	L2
A mantling gush comes quick and shining o er the edge	L2
	-
Tis evening and the torrent s furious flow	J2
Runs gentlier now into the lake below	J2
O er all the freshened scene no sound is heard	F
Save the short twitter of some busied bird	F
Or a faint rustle made amongst the trees	A2
By wasting fragments of a broken breeze	A2
Along the wild and wreck strewed paths I wind	M2
Watching earth s happiness with quiet mind	M2
And see a beauty all unmarked till now	B
Flushing each flowery nook and sunny brow	B
Wished peace returning like a bird of calm	N2
Brings to the wounded world its blessed healing balm	N2
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On nerveless tuneless lines how sadly	O2
Ringing rhymes may wasted be	O2
While blank verse oft is mere prose madly	O2
Striving to be poetry	O2
While prose that s craggy as a mountain	B
May Apollo s sun robe don	B
Or hold the well spring of a fountain	B
Bright as that in Helicon	B

Charles Harpur

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