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TIS nine o clock to bed cried Egremont	A
Who with his youthful household for tis now	B
Long since inhabited a lonely home	C
In the Australian wilderness that then	D
As with an unshorn fleece of gloomy wood	A
Robed the vast bulk of all the mighty Isle	E
But ere retiring finally he went	A
Forth as his wont was to survey the night	A
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Twas clear and silent and the stirless woods	F
Seemed dreaming in the witch light of the moon	G
As like a boat of stained pearl she hung	H
Amid the ridges of a wavy cloud	A
The only cloud in heaven While Egremont	A
Looked thus abroad observingly he marked	A
All around him listing the horizon s verge	I
A broad unusual upward glaring gleam	J
Such a drear radiance as the setting sun	K
Effuses when the atmosphere is stormy	L
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What this might be he wondered but not long	M
Divining soon the cause a vast Bush Fire	N
But deeming it too distant yet for harm	O
During the night betiding to repose	P
With his bed faring household he retired	A
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Sound was their sleep for honesty of life	Q
Is somewhat lumpish when tis once a bed	A
And now the darkness of the night was past	A
When with the dreams of Egremont a strange	R
And momently approaching roar began	S
To mingle and insinuate through them more	T
And more of its own import till a Fire	N
Huge as the world was their sole theme and then	D
He started from his sleep to find the type	U
A warning for what else however terrible	V
Might breathe with a vitality so fierce	W
As that which reigned without	A
	-
Scarce did he wait	A
To clothe himself ere forth he rushed and lo	X
Within the circling forest he beheld	A
A vast and billowy belt of writhing fire	N
That shed a wild and lurid splendour up	Y
Against the whitening dawn come raging on	Z
Raging and roaring as with ten thousand tongues	A2
That prophesied destruction On it came	B2
A dreadful apparition such as Fear	C2
Conceives when dreaming of the front of hell	D2
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No time was there to lose Up up he cried	A
To all the house Instantly all within	E2
Was haste and wonder and in briefest space	F2
The whole roused family were staring out	A
In speechless admiration such as kept	A
Even Terror dormant till more urgently	L
The voice of Egremont again was heard	A
Lose not a moment Follow me at once	G2
Each with whatever he can grasp of use	H2
And carry unincumbered	A
	-
Right before	T
A narrow strip of clearing like a glade	A
Stretched out tow rds a bald summit Thitherward	A
The perilled people now were hurrying all	I2
While in their front beneath the ridge a dense	J2
Extent of brushwood into which the Fire s	K2
Bright teeth were eating hungrily still brought	A
The danger nearer Shall they reach that hill	L2
Unscathed their only refuge Will they speed	A
Past the red rushing peril Onward yet	A
And onward till at length the summit s gained	A
And halting they look back in safety all	I2
Though breathless	M2
	-
But no sooner had they past	A
That fearful brush than a vast swathe of flame	B2
Lifted and hurried forward by the wind	A
Over their very passage track was pitched	A
With a loud thud like thunder into it	A
With such a thud as the sea swell gives up	Y
From under the ledges of some hanging cliff	N2
And in an instant all its depth of shade	A
Was as a lake of hell And hark as then	D
Even like a ghastly pyramid its mass	O2
Of flames went surging up up with them still	L2
A cry of mortal agony was heard	A
Ascending all so terrible indeed	A
That they who heard it never until then	D
Might deem a voice so earnest in its fear	C2
So strenuous in its anguish could have being	P2
In the live bosom of the suffering Earth	Q2
But soon did they divine even to their loss	R2
Its import there a giant steed their best	A
Had taken refuge there to die	A
	-
All grouped	A
In safety now upon that hill s bare top	S2
Egremont and his household looked abroad	A
Astonished at the terrors of the time	T2
Soon sunk their rooftree in the fiery surge	I
Which entering next a high grassed bottom thick	U2
With bark ringed trees all standing bleak and leafless	M2
Tenfold more terrible in its ravage grew	V2
Upclimbing to their very tops As when	D
Upon some day of national festival	V
From the tall spars of the ship crowded port	A
Innumerous flags in one direction all	I2
Tongue outward writhing in the wind even so	X
From those dry boles where still the dead bark clings	W2
And from their multifarious mass above	X2
Of leafless boughs myriads of flaming tongues	A2
Lick upward or aloft in narrowing flakes	Y2
Stream out and thence upon the tortured blast	A
Bicker and flap in one inconstant blaze	Z2
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Scared forward by the roaring of the Fire	N
A flight of parrots o er the upper ridge	A3
Comes whizzing and then sweeping down alights	Z2
Amid the oaks that fringe the base of yon	Z
Precipitous terrace being deterred from still	L2
Proceeding by the smoke uprolled in front	A
Like a dim moving range of spectral mountains	Z2
There they abide and listen in their fear	C2
To the tremendous riot of the flames	Z2
Beyond the ridge line that keep nearing fast	A
Though yet unseen from thence unseen till now	B
Furiously seizing on the withered grove	B3
That tops the terrace all whose spiry shafts	Z2
Rush upward and then culminating bend	A
Sheer o er the oaks wherein the birds are lodged	A
All are in flight at once but from above	X2
As suddenly a mightier burst of flame	B2
Outsheeteth o er them Down they dip but it	A
Keeps swooping with them even to the ground	A
Where in a moment after all are seen	C3
To writhe convulsed blasted and plumeless all	I2
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Thus through the day the conflagration raged	A
And when the wings of night o erspread the scene	C3
Not even their starry blazonry wore such	D3
An aggregated glory to the eye	A
As did the blazing dead wood of the forest	A
On all hands blazing Mighty sapless gums	Z2
Amid their living kindred stood all fire	N
Boles branches all like flaming ghosts of trees	Z2
Come from the past within the whiteman s pale	E3
To typify a doom Such was the prospect	A
Illuminated cities were but jests	Z2
Compared to it for splendor But enough	F3
Where are the words to paint the million shapes	Z2
And unimaginable freaks of Fire	N
When holding thus its monster carnival	V
In the primeval forest all night long	M

Charles Harpur

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