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From Camoweal to Windywoe from Windywoe to Thirstyville	A
We'll drag the line around the map along the plain and up the hill	A
Scross the desert to the swamp across the swamp and up the rise	B
'Our ' Sacred Rights must be preserved 'our' claims you'll have to recognise	B
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One night while others were abed	C
With weary eyes and aching head	C
I pored for hours and hours upon a map	D
Till dots and lines began to swim	E
'Suggested routes' grew blurred and dim	E
And then I think I must have had a nap	D
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But with a start it seemed to me	F
I sat boolt upright suddenly	F
And gazed with staring eyes before me straight	G
For there upon my inkwell's brim	E
With aspect most grotesque and grim	E
Methought a large fat hairy spider sate	G
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'Good fellow you behold in me	F
An insect of repute ' said he	F
'I'm that State Insect so much talked about	H
I've frequently been mentioned in	I
Such papers as THE BULLETIN	J
So you have beard of me before no doubt	H
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'You've recently ' pursued the brute	K
'Been pondering upon the route	K
Of our Transcontinental Railway Line	L
I do not know what views you hold	M
But if it be not deemed too bold	M
I'll just acquaint you with a few of mine '	-
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Then suddenly the creature dropped	N
Heels over head and downward flopped	N
Into the pot and floundered in the ink	O
I calmly thought 'He'll drown no doubt'	N
But presently he struggled out	N
And sat once more all dripping on the brink	O
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'Ere I proceed to illustrate	N
The views of each protesting State	N
Thus did the beast address me from the pot	N
'Please understand I represent	N
All phases of State discontent	N
In me is concentrated all the lot '	-
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Then quickly from the pot he crawled	N
And ere I could prevent it sprawled	N
Upon the map I cursed at him in vain	P
And as he went and left behind	N
Long inky smears all crossed and lined	N
He chanted this preposterous refrain	P
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'From Drouthyhurst to Dottytown from Dottytown to Thirstyville	F
We'll drag the line around the map and o'er the plain and up the hill	F
With here a twist and there a turn and over here a wide detour	Q
Our claims you have to recognise our prejudices must endure	Q
From Boodle's run to Foodle's pub our Sacred Rights you must preserve	R
From Foodle's pub to Doodle's dam the int'rests of the State to serve	R
Insanely crawling through the map and in and out and to and fro	S
If you'd propitiate the States this is the way the line will go '	-
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I seized a pen in angry haste	N
And with a curse the creature chased	N
From off the map then looked and cursed some more	T
But 'round the corner of the pot	N
The spider peered and said 'What rot	N
I don't see what you've got to curse me for	T
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'I will explain if you'll permit '	-
It said but in an angry fit	N
I banged the map and yelled 'Upon my word	N
You've crossed and lined it back and forth	U
But one straight line from south to north	U
Does not appear Your system is absurd	N
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'Suppose ' I said 'invaders came	V
Here in the north How in the name	V
Of thunder could we quickly move our troops	B
How could we rush our army forth	U
Into the unprotected North	U
With all your crazy twists and turns and loops '	-
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'Good fellow I have yet to learn	W
That it is any State's concern	W
To meddle with Defence ' he made reply	F
'That is the Commonwealth's lookout	N
They'll get 'em there I have no doubt	N
But as for us we've other fish to fry	F
'Yet if you really want to know	S
Which way the troops will have to go	S
Once more I shall be happy to explain '	-
And as I planned his sudden death	X
The creature drew a long deep breath	X
And sang again this maddening refrain	P
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'From Drouthyhurst to Dottytown from Dottytown to Thirstyville	F
We'll drag the army 'round the map and o'er the plain and up the hill	F
With over here a wide detour and here a twist and there a turn	W
And if they never meet the foe it isn't any state's concern	W
We'll drag 'em miles and weary miles from Foodle's pub to Boodle's run	J
The while the foeman gains the North without the firing of a gun	J
From Boodle's run to Doodle's dam o'er kink and curl and loop and curve	R
Our int'rests you must recognise our Sacred Rights you must observe '	-
Again all haste I made to grab	Y
A pen this time resolved to stab	Y
The loathly insect in some vital spot	N
But though with murd'rous aim I hit	N
'Twas wasting energy for it	N
Eluded me and dodged around the pot	N
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'Aha You're not the first of men	Z
To try to slay me with a pen '	-
It sneered 'They try in vain I still survive	A2
And now I go to make a league	B2
And weave a web of State intrigue	B2
That will enmesh you all if I'm alive '	-
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Then with another wicked sneer	C2
The creature seemed to disappear	C2
I searched in vain the thing had vanished quite	N
And though I laugh and talk and think	O
And go to church and take to drink	O
I can't shake off the horrors of that night	N
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For still that ruined map I've got	N
All sullied o'er with smear and blot	N
The sight of which calls forth a frenzied scream	D2
And since that night I've counsel sought	N
Of learned men who surely ought	N
To know but all declare it was a dream	D2
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Yet when the views of PHILP or WADE	N
Within the Tory press displayed	N
Assault mine eyes I seem to see quite plain	P
That ugly spider fat and squat	N
Perched insolently on the pot	N
I seem to hear again the weird refrain	P
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'From Drouthyhurst to Dottytown from Dottytown to Thirstyville	F
We'll drag the line around the map and o'er the plain and up the hill	F
With here a kink and there a curve and here a needless wide detour	Q
Our claims you have to recognise our sacred int'rests must endure	Q
For Boodle has a bit of land and Foodle has much influence	B
And Doodles cattle must be trucked whatever happens to Defence	B
So down it goes by Snoodle's road from Snoodle's road to Noodle's Well	F
Aus tral i an defence be blowed Austral i a may go to Hell '	-

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

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