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Home's best she said and the tale	A
Of the hungering soil and the flail	A
Of the sun and the shuddering threat	B
Of the heat and more heat yet	B
Of more than a woman can stand	C
Almost in that merciless land	C
With its lifelong lingering strife	D
For the Mallee mother and wife	D
	-
Oh I've seen all the spurious zest	E
Of the city and yet home's best	E
The sweep of the plain's vast verge	F
And the calling of Life and the urge	F
To struggle and hope in vain	G
Then struggle and hope again	H
That and the faith that clings	I
For the solving of human things	I
	-
Home's best she said I have seen	J
The glamor of cities the sheen	J
Of the silken garments rare	K
And they spell for me despair	K
Despair for the woman who cleaves	L
To luxury's yellowing leaves	L
Despair for the weakening race	M
Who faltering fall from grace	M
	-
Life as I know it is stern	N
And the seed of my seed must learn	N
That nothing has life to give	O
Save a man must labor to live	P
Struggle and ache and toil	Q
For the gifts that come of the soil	Q
Since every treasure of worth	R
Comes of the hard kind earth	R
	-
Home's best she said and the dust	S
And the finger of God out thrust	S
Saying 'You toil or die	T
Under this pitiless sky '	-
Even as long since said	U
To the Parents of Man long dead	U
Even as 'twas decreed	V
In Man's first passionate need	V
	-
Home's best For what do they know	W
Who cleave to glitter and show	W
And strive in a strange excess	X
Of pleasure for happiness	Y
What do they know of worth	R
Of the secret lure of the earth	R
And the peace and the exquisite ache of the battle	Z
For my man's sake	A2

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

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