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I M STEWING in a brick built town	A
My coat is quite a stylish cut	B
And morn and even up and down	A
I travel in a common rut	B
But as the city sounds recede	C
In dreamy moods I sometimes see	D
A vision of a busy lead	E
And hear its voices calling me	D
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My flaccid muscles seem to tweak	F
To feel the windlass pall and strain	G
To shake the cradle by the creek	F
And puddle at the tom again	H
I d gladly sling this musty shop	I
To see the sluicing waters flow	J
A pile of tucker dirt on top	I
And simply Lord knows what below	J
	-
Twas lightly left tis lately mourned	K
The tent life up at Stop and See	D
When shirts with yellow clay adorned	K
Were badges of nobility	D
When Sunday s best was Monday s wear	L
And Bennett gave us verse and book	M
Poor Dick a crude philosopher	N
But bless his heart a clever cook	M
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An easy life we lived and free	D
The wash was only ten weight stuff	O
The bottom dry and soft at knee	D
With Hope to help us twas enough	O
Then none could say us ay or nay	P
Did we agree to slave or smoke	Q
The pan was ready with the pay	P
E en though the graft was half in joke	Q
	-
Twas good when spell oh had been said	E
To watch the white smoke curl and cling	R
Against the gravel roof o erhead	E
The candles dimly flickering	R
And circled with a yellow glow	J
To sprawl upon the broken reef	S
And pensively to pull and blow	J
The fragrant incense from the leaf	S
	-
And where the creek ran by our tent	E
Or lingered through embowered ponds	T
In dusky nooks that held a scent	E
Of musk amid the drooping fronds	T
It was a pleasant task to lay	P
The dish within the stream and there	L
To puddle off the pug and clay	P
And pan the gleaming prospect bare	L
	-
Oft in the strange deceit of dreams	U
I swirl the old tin dish again	H
And Wondee s rippling water seems	U
To cool my weary limbs as then	H
And down the hill side bare and dry	V
A digger s chorus faintly comes	W
And mingles with the lullaby	V
Of locusts in the drowsy gums	W
	-
The barrels rattle on their stands	X
And in the shaft the nail kegs swing	R
The short sharp strokes of practised hands	X
Are making pick and anvil ring	R
I hear the splitter s measured blow	J
The distant knocker rise and drop	I
The cheery cry Look up below	J
The muffled call of Heave on top	I
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No piles were made at Stop and See	D
No nuggets found of giant size	Y
But looking back it seems to me	D
That all who laboured there were wise	Y
For there was freedom void of pride	E
There hate of forms and shallow arts	Z
And there were friendships all too wide	E
For narrow streets and narrow hearts	Z

Edward George Dyson

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