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Thought weary and sad I reclined by a fountain	A
At the head of a white cedar shaded ravine	B
And the breeze that fell over the high glooming mountain	A
Sang a lullaby low as I gazed o er the scene	B
Long I d reclined not till slumber came o er me	C
Grateful as balm to a suffering child	D
When a glorious maiden seemed standing before me	C
With a lyre in her hand O so sounding and wild	D
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Bright was her brow not the morning s brow brighter	E
But her eyes were two midnights of passionate thought	F
Light was her motion the breeze s not lighter	E
And her looks were like sunshine and shadow in wrought	F
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Never before did my bosom inherit	G
Emotion so thrilling such exquisite awe	H
Never such wonder exalted my spirit	G
Before as did now through the vision I saw	I
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Robed for the chase like a nymph of Diana	J
Her ivory limbs were half given below	K
Bare that the pure breath of heaven might fan her	E
Bare was her bosom of roseate snow	K
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Then lifting the lyre and with every feeling	L
Sublimed as with love she awakened the strings	M
And the while as it seemed into being came stealing	L
The motion and light of angelical wings	M
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Divine were the measure Each voice of the wold wood	N
Seemed gathering power in their musical thrills	O
The loud joy of streams in their strong mountain childhood	N
The shouting of echoes that break from the hills	O
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The moaning of trees all at midnight in motion	A
When the breezes seem lost in the dark with a rare	P
And sweet soaring spirit of human devotion	A
All blended and woven together were there	P
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Then she smiled with a look like the radiance of morning	L
When flushing the crystal of heaven s serene	B
Blent with that darkness of beauty adorning	L
The world when the moon just arising is seen	B
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And repressing it seemed many fonder suggestions	Q
Calmly she spake I arose to my knees	R
Expectantly glad while to quiet my questions	Q
The wild warbled words that she uttered were these	R
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I am the muse of the evergreen forest	S
I am the spouse of thy spirit lone bard	T
Ev n in the days when thy boyhood thou worest	T
Thy pastimes drew on thee my dearest regard	T
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For I knew thee ev n then in thy ecstacy musing	L
Of glory and grace by old Hawkesbury s side	T
Scenes that spread recordless round thee suffusing	L
With the purple of love I beheld thee and sighed	T
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Sighed for the fire robe of thought had enwound thee	C
Betok ning how much that the happy most dread	T
And whence there should follow howe er it renowned thee	C
What sorrows of heart and what labours of head	T
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Signed though thy dreams did the more but endear thee	C
It seemed of the breeze or a sigh of thine own	U
When I swept o er this lyre still unseen gliding near thee	C
To give thy emotions full measure and tone	U
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Since have I tracked thee through less lovely places	V
And seen thee with sorrow long herd with the vain	W
Lured into error by false smiling faces	V
Chained by dull fashion though scorning her chain	W
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Then would I prompt in the still hour of dreaming	L
Some thought of thy beautiful country again	X
Of her yet to be famed streams through dark woods far gleaming	L
Of her bold shores that throb to the beat of the main	W
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Till at last I beheld thee arise in devotion	A
To shake from thy heart the vile bondage it bore	Y
And my joy gloried out like a morning lit ocean	A
When thy footfall I heard in the mountains once more	Y
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Listen belov d one I promise thee glory	C
Such as shall rise like the day star apart	T
To brighten the source of Australia s broad story	C
But for this thou must give to the future thy heart	T
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Be then the bard of thy country O rather	E
Should such be thy choice than a monarchy wide	T
Lo Tis the land of the grave of thy father	E
Tis the cradle of liberty Think and decide	T
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Joy glowed in my heart as she ceased Unreplying	L
I gazed mute with love on her soul moulded charms	Z
Deeper they glowed her lips trembled and sighing	L
She rushed to my heart and dissolved in my arms	Z

Charles Harpur

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