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I SATE upon a lonely peak	A
A backwood river s course to view	B
And watched the changing shadows freak	A
Its liquid length of gleaming blue	B
Streaked by the crane slow gliding o er	C
Or chequering to the leafy roar	D
Of woods that neath me grew	B
Or curdling dark as high o erhead	E
The gathering clouds before the sounding breezes fled	E
Straight I bethought how once the scene	F
Spread in its primal horror there	G
When but some lone bird s weary threne	F
Or howlings from the wild dog s lair	G
Or rush of startled kangaroo	B
As near some stealthy savage drew	B
With hunger in his air	G
Or from the stream some murmur d sound	E
Broke the dread slumbrous calm of solitude profound	E
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A change came o er my thoughts behind	E
A length of coming time I threw	B
Till round me on that rock reclined	E
Its folds prophetic vision drew	B
And purpling like the morning gave	H
Mine eyes of freedom s births to have	I
A seeming ante view	B
As haply in brave promise stole	J
His country s purer weal o er youthful Hampden s soul	J
	-
All round me villages upgrew	B
At once with orchards clumped about	E
And oft between tall pine rows through	B
Some mansion s pillard porch looked out	E
And thickening up from alleys green	F
Where rustic groups in dance were seen	F
Came merry cry and shout	E
While from tall groves beyond the cheer	B
Of maiden s laughter soft broke in rich wavelets near	B
	-
And in the gusts that overpassed	E
The stir of neighbouring cities came	K
Whose structures in the distance massed	E
Proclaimed their opulence and fame	K
O er fields of ripening plenty viewed	E
Or hills with white flocks fleeced and strewed	E
With herds that grazed the same	K
While on the paven roads between	F
The crowding chariots came with rapid rolling din	F
	-
Now gaining depth the vision lay	L
Around my being like a law	M
So that my spirit might not say	L
But all was real that I saw	M
I mark a youth and maiden pressed	E
By love s sweet power elude the rest	E
And as they nearer draw	M
I list the vow that each imparts	N
Folded within the spells of harmonizing hearts	N
	-
But suddenly a grim faced sire	B
Strides like a fatal wraith between	F
With that cold whiteness is his ire	B
Which in the bad alone is seen	F
Alas This world can never be	O
A poet s Eden utterly	O
Twill be what it hath been	F
So long as love s rich heart is red	E
And beauty s eyes are bright so long shall tears be shed	E
	-
They pass and lo a lonely boy	P
With wandering step goes musing by	Q
Glory is in his air and joy	P
And all the poet in his eye	Q
And now whilst rich emotions flush	R
His happy face as cloud hues blush	R
In morning s radiant sky	Q
He sings and to the charmful sound	E
Troops of angelic shapes throng into being round	E
	-
But neath a sombre cypress tree	O
And clad in garbs of kindred gloom	S
A mother and her child I see	O
Both mourning o er a lowly tomb	S
Ah Life hath ever been a brief	T
Mixed dream of glory and grief	T
Its earliest latest doom	S
That heart in which love s tides first ran	F
Descends with all its risks to every child of man	F
	-
Now turning see with locks all grey	L
A form majestic wisdom true	B
Illumes his brow the power to weigh	L
All worth and look all semblence through	B
And stately youths of studious mien	F
Children of light with him are seen	F
His auditory who	B
Attend the speaking sage along	U
And hearken to the wisdom of his manna dropping tongue	V
	-
And now doth his large utterance throw	B
A sacred solemnizing spell	W
O er scenes that yet no record know	B
Round names that now I may not tell	W
But there was one too long unknown	F
Whereat as with a household tone	F
Upon the ear it fell	W
Each listener s speaking eyes were given	F
To glisten with a tear and turn awhile to heaven	F
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Thus night came on for hours had flown	F
And yet its hold the vision kept	E
Till lulled by many a dying tone	F
I laid me on the rock and slept	E
And now the moon hung big between	F
Two neighbouring summits sheath d with sheen	F
When all with dews dewept	E
And roused by a loud coming gale	X
I sought our camp fire s glow deep in the darkening vale	X

Charles Harpur

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