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A settler in the olden times went forth	A
With four of his most bold and trusted men	B
Into the wilderness went forth to seek	C
New streams and wider pastures for his fast	D
Increasing flocks and herds O er mountain routes	E
And over wild wolds clouded up with brush	F
And cut with marshes perilously deep	G
So went they forth at dawn at eve the sun	H
That rose behind them as they journeyed out	I
Was firing with his nether rim a range	J
Of unknown mountains that like ramparts towered	K
Full in their front and his last glances fell	L
Into the gloomy forest s eastern glades	M
In golden gleams like to the Angel s sword	N
And flashed upon the windings of a creek	C
That noiseless ran betwixt the pioneers	O
And those new Apennines ran shaded o er	P
With boughs of the wild willow hanging mixed	Q
From either bank or duskily befringed	Q
With upward tapering feathery swamp oaks	R
The sylvan eyelash always of remote	Q
Australian waters whether gleaming still	S
In lake or pool or bickering along	T
Between the marges of some eager stream	U
Before them thus extended wilder grew	V
The scene each moment and more beautiful	W
For when the sun was all but sunk below	X
Those barrier mountains in the breeze that o er	P
Their rough enormous backs deep fleeced with wood	Q
Came whispering down the wide up slanting sea	Y
Of fanning leaves in the descending rays	Z
Danced dazzlingly tingling as if the trees	A2
Thrilled to the roots for very happiness	B2
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But when the sun had wholly disappeared	Q
Behind those mountains O what words what hues	C2
Might paint the wild magnificence of view	V
That opened westward Out extending lo	X
The heights rose crowding with their summits all	D2
Dissolving as it seemed and partly lost	Q
In the exceeding radiancy aloft	Q
And thus transfigured for awhile they stood	Q
Like a great company of archaeons crowned	Q
With burning diadems and tented o er	P
With canopies of purple and of gold	Q
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Here halting wearied now the sun was set	Q
Our travellers kindled for their first night s camp	E2
A brisk and crackling fire which seemed to them	F2
A wilder creature than twas elsewhere wont	Q
Because of the surrounding savageness	C2
And as they supped birds of new shape and plume	G2
And wild strange voice came by and up the steep	G
Between the climbing forest growths they saw	C2
Perched on the bare abutments of the hills	C2
Where haply yet some lingering gleam fell through	V
The wallaroo look forth Eastward at last	Q
The glow was wasted into formless gloom	G2
Night s front then westward the high massing woods	C2
Steeped in a swart but mellow Indian hue	V
A deep dusk loveliness lay ridged and heaped	Q
Only the more distinctly for their shade	Q
Against the twilight hearen a cloudless depth	H2
Yet luminous with sunset s fading glow	X
And thus awhile in the lit dusk they seemed	Q
To hang like mighty pictures of themselves	C2
In the still chambers of some vaster world	Q
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At last the business of the supper done	H
The echoes of the solitary place	C2
Came as in sylvan wonder wide about	Q
To hear and imitate the voices strange	J
Within the pleasant purlieus of the fire	P
Lifted in glee but to be hushed erelong	T
As with the darkness of the night there came	I2
O er the adventurers each and all some sense	C2
Of danger lurking in its forest lairs	C2
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But nerved by habit they all gathered round	Q
About the well built fire whose nimble tongues	C2
Sent up continually a strenuous roar	J2
Of fierce delight and from their fuming pipes	C2
Drawing rude comfort round the pleasant light	Q
With grave discourse they planned their next day s deeds	C2
Wearied at length their couches they prepared	Q
Of rushes and the long green tresses pulled	Q
From the bent boughs of the wild willows near	K2
Then the four men stretched out their tired limbs	C2
Under the dark arms of the forest trees	C2
That mixed aloft high in the starry air	L2
In arcs and leafy domes whose crossing curves	C2
Blended with denser intergrowth of sprays	C2
Were seen in mass traced out against the clear	K2
Wide gaze of heaven and trustful of the watch	M2
Kept near them by their master soon they slept	Q
Forgetful of the perilous wilderness	C2
That lay around them like a spectral world	Q
And all things slept the circling forest trees	C2
Their foremost boles carved from a crowded mass	C2
Less visible by the watch fire s bladed gleams	C2
That ran far out in the umbrageous dark	T
Beyond the broad red ring of constant light	Q
And even the shaded mountains darkly seen	N2
Their bluff brows looming through the stirless air	L2
Looked in their stillness solemnly asleep	G
Yea thence surveyed the universe might have seemed	Q
Coiled in vast rest only that one dark cloud	Q
Diffused and shapen like a spider huge	O2
Crept as with scrawling legs along the sky	T
And that the stars in their bright orders still	S
Cluster by cluster glowingly revealed	Q
As this slow cloud moved on high over all	D2
Peaceful and wakeful watched the world below	X
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Part II	P2
Meanwhile the cloudless eastern heaven had grown	Q2
More luminous and now the moon arose	C2
Above the hill when lo that giant cone	Q2
Erewhile so dark seemed inwardly aglow	X
With her instilled irradiance while the trees	C2
That fringed its outline their huge statures dwarfed	Q
By distance into brambles and yet all	D2
Clearly defined against her ample orb	R2
Out of its very disc appeared to swell	L
In shadowy relief as they had been	S2
All sculptured from its surface as she rose	C2
Then her full light in silvery sequence still	S
Cascading forth from ridgy slope to slope	T2
Chased mass by mass the broken darkness down	U2
Into the dense brushed valleys where it crouched	Q
And shrank and struggled like a dragon doubt	Q
Glooming a lonely spirit	Q
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His lone watch	M2
The master kept and wakeful looked abroad	Q
On all the solemn beauty of the world	Q
And by some sweet and subtle tie that joins	C2
The loved and cherished absent from our side	Q
With all that is serene and beautiful	W
In Nature thoughts of home began to steal	V2
Into his musings when on a sudden hark	T
A bough cracks loudly in a neighbouring brake	T
Against the shade side of a bending gum	W2
With a strange horror gathering to his heart	Q
As if his blood were charged with insect life	X2
And writhed along in clots he stilled himself	Y2
And listened heedfully till his held breath	Z2
Became a pang Nought heard he silence there	L2
Had recomposed her ruffled wings and now	A3
Deep brooded in the darkness so that he	Y
Again mused on quiet and reassured	Q
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But there again crack upon crack Awake	T
O heaven have hell s worst fiends burst howling up	B3
Into the death doomed world Or whence if not	Q
From diabolic rage could surge a yell	L
So horrible as that which now affrights	C2
The shuddering dark Beings as fell are near	K2
Yea beings in their dread inherited hate	Q
Awful vengeful as hell s worst fiends are come	W2
In vengeance For behold from the long grass	C2
And nearer brakes arise the bounding forms	C2
Of painted savages full in the light	Q
Thrown outward by the fire that roused and lapped	Q
The rounding darknesswith its ruddy tongues	C2
More fiercely than before as though even it	Q
Had felt the sudden shock the air received	Q
From those terrific cries	C2
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On then they came	I2
And rushed upon the sleepers three of whom	G2
But started and then weltered prone beneath	C3
The first fell blow dealt down on each by three	Y
Of the most stalwart of their pitiless foes	C2
But one again and yet again rose up	B3
Rose to his knees under the crushing strokes	C2
Of huge clubbed nulla nullas till his own	Q2
Warm blood was blinding him For he was one	H
Who had with misery nearly all his days	C2
Lived lonely and who therefore in his soul	D3
Did hunger after hope and thirst for what	Q
Hope still had promised him some taste at least	Q
Of human good however long deferred	Q
And now he could not even in dying loose	C2
His hold on life s poor chances still to come	W2
Could not but so dispute the terrible fact	Q
Of death e en in death s presence Strange it is	C2
Yet oft tis seen that fortune s pampered child	Q
Consents to death s untimely power with less	C2
Reluctance less despair than does the wretch	M2
Who hath been ever blown about the world	Q
The straw like spo	B3

Charles Harpur

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