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I	A
I verse a Settler's tale of olden times	B
One told me by our sage friend Egremont	C
Who then went forth meetly equipt with four	D
Of his most trusty and adventrous men	E
Into the wilderness went forth to seek	F
New streams and wider pastures for his fast	C
Augmenting flocks and herds On foot were all	G
For horses then were beast of too great price	H
To be much ventured on mountain routes	I
And over wild wolds clouded up with brush	J
And cut with marshes perilously deep	K
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So went they forth at dawn and now the sun	L
That rose behind them as they journeyed out	C
Was firing with his nether rim a range	M
Of unknown mountains that like ramparts towered	C
Full in their front and his last glances fell	N
Into the gloomy forest's eastern glades	O
In golden massses transiently or flashed	C
Down to the windings of a nameless Creek	F
That noiseless ran betwixt the pioneers	P
And those new Apennines ran shaded up	Q
With boughs of the wild willow hanging mixed	C
From either bank or duskily befringed	C
With upward tapering feathery swamp oaks	R
The sylvan eyelash always of remote	C
Australian waters whether gleaming still	S
In lake or pool or bickering along	T
Between the marges of some eager stream	U
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Before then 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	Y
Their rough enormous backs deep fleeced with wood	C
Came whispering down the wide up slanting sea	Z
Of fanning leaves in the descending rays	A2
Danced interdazzingly as if the trees	B2
That bore them were all thrilling tingling all	G
Even to the roots for very happiness	C2
So prompted from within so sentient seemed	C
The bright quick motion wildly beautiful	W
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But when the sun had wholly disappeared	C
Behind those mountains O what words what hues	D2
Might paint the wild magnificence of view	V
That opened westward Out extending lo	X
The heights rose crowding with their summits all	G
Dissolving as it seemed and partly lost	C
In the exceeding radiancy aloft	C
And thus transfigured for awhile they stood	C
Like a great company of Archaeons crowned	C
With burning diadems and tented o'er	Y
With canopies of purple and of gold	C
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Here halting wearied now the sun was set	C
Our travellers kindled for their first night's camp	E2
The brisk and crackling fire which also looked	C
A wilder creature than 'twas elsewhere wont	C
Because of the surrounding savageness	D2
And soon in cannikins the tea was made	C
Fragrant and stong long fresh sliced rashers then	E
Impaled on whittled skewers were deftly broiled	C
On the live embers and when done transferred	C
To quadrants from an ample damper cut	C
Their only trenchers soon to be dispatched	C
With all the savoury morsels they sustained	C
By the keen tooth of healthful appitite	C
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And as they supped birds of new shape and plume	F2
And wild strange voice came by nestward repairing by	A
Oft too their wonder or betwixt the gaps	D2
In the ascending forest growths they saw	D2
Perched on the bare abutments of the hills	D2
Where haply yet some lingering gleam fell through	V
The wallaroo look forth till aastward all	G
The view had wasted into formless gloom	F2
Night's front and westward the high massing woods	D2
Steeped in a swart but mellowed Indian hue	V
A deep dusk loveliness lay ridged and heaped	C
Only the more distinctly for their shade	C
Against the twilight heaven a cloudless depth	G2
Yet luminous with the sunset's fading glow	X
And thus awhile in the lit dusk they seemed	C
To hang like mighty pictures of themselves	D2
In the still chambers of some vaster world	C
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The silent business of their supper done	L
The Echoes of the solitary place	D2
Came as in sylvan wonder wide about	C
To hear and imitate tentatively	Z
Stange voice moulding a strange speech as then	E
Within the pleasant purlieus of the fire	Y
Lifted in glee but to be hushed erelong	T
As with the night in kindred darkness came	H2
O'er the adventurers each and all some sense	D2
Some vague felt intimation from without	C
Of danger lurking in its forest lairs	D2
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But nerved by habit and all settled soon	I2
About the well built fire whose nimble tongues	D2
Sent up continually a strenuous roar	D
Of fierce delight and from their fuming pipes	D2
Fu charged and fragrant with the Indian weed	C
Drawing rude comfort typed without as 'twere	D
By tiny clouds over their several heads	D2
Quietly curling upward thus disposed	C
Within the pleasant firelight grave discourse	D2
of their peculiar business brought to each	J2
A steadier mood that reached into the night	C
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The simple subject to their minds at length	K2
Fully discussed their couches they prepared	C
Of rushes and the long green tresses pulled	C
Down from the boughs of the wild willows near	D
The four as prearranged stretched out their limbs	D2
Under the dark arms of the forest trees	D2
That mixed aloft high in the starry air	D
In arcs and leafy domes whose crossing curves	D2
And roof like features blurring as they ran	L2
Into some denser intergrowth of sprays	D2
Were seen in mass traced out against the clear	D
Wide gaze of heaven and trustful of the watch	M2
Kept near them by their thoughtful Master soon	I2
Drowsing away forgetful of their toil	N2
And of the perilous vast wilderness	D2
That lay around them like a spectral world	C
Slept breathing deep whilst all things there as well	N
Showed slumbrous yea the circling forest trees	D2
Their foremost holes carved from a crowded mass	D2
Less visible by the watchfire's bladed gleams	D2
As quick and spicular from the broad red ring	T
Of its more constant light they ran in spurts	D2
Far out and under the umbrageous dark	T
And even the shaded and enormous mounts	D2
Their bluff brows grooming through the stirless air	D
Looked in their quiet solemnly asleep	K
Yea thence surveyed the Universe might have seemed	C
Coiled in vast rest only that one dim cloud	C
Diffused and shapen like a huge spider	D
Crept as with scrawling legs along the sky	T
And that the stars in their bright orders still	S
Cluster by cluster glowingly revealed	C
As this slow cloud moved on high over all	G
Looked wakeful yea looked thoughtful in their peace	D2
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II	A
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Meanwhile the cloudless eastem heaven had grown	O2
More and more luminous and now the Moon	I2
Up from behind a giant hill was seen	P2
Conglobing till a mighty mass she brought	C
Her under border level with its cone	O2
As thereon it were resting when behold	C
A wonder Instantly that cone's whole bulk	T
Erewhile so dark seemed inwardly a glow	X
With her instilled irradiance while the trees	D2
That fringed its outline their huge statures dwarfed	C
By distance into brambles and yet all	G
Clearly defined against her ample orb	Q2
Out of its very disc appeared to swell	N
In shadowy relief as they had been	R2
All sculptured from its substance as she rose	D2
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Thus o'er that dark height her great orb arose	D2
Till her full light in silvery sequence still	S
Cascading forth from ridgy slope to slope	S2
Like the dropt foldings of a lucent veil	T2
Chased mass by mass the broken darkness down	U2
Into the dense brushtd valleys where it crouched	C
And shrank and struggled like a dragon doubt	C
Glooming some lonely spirit that doth still	S
Resist the Truth with obstinate shifts and shows	D2
Though shining out of heaven and from defect	C
Winning a triumph that might else not be	Z
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There standing in his lone watch Egremont	C
On all this solemn beauty of the world	C
Looked out yet wakeful for sweet thoughts of home	V2
And all the sacred charities it held	C
Ingathered to his heart as by some nice	D2
And subtle interfusion that connects	D2
The loved and cherished then the most perhaps	D2
When absent or when passed or even when lost	C
With all serene and beautiful and bright	C
And lasting things of Nature So then thought	C
The musing Egremont when sudden hark	T
A bough crackt loudly in a neighboring brake	T
And drew at once as with alarum all	G
His spirits thitherward in wild surmise	D2
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But summoning caution and b	Z

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