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  • February
    The robin on my lawn
    He was the first to tell
    How, in the frozen dawn,
    This miracle befell, ...
  • Lettermore
    These winter days on Lettermore
    The brown west wind it sweeps the bay,
    And icy rain beats on the bare
    Unhomely fields that perish there: ...
  • Scirocco
    Out of that high pavilion
    Where the sick, wind-harassed sun
    In the whiteness of the day
    Ghostly shone and stole away - ...
  • Song At Santa Cruz
    Were there lovers in the lanes of Atlantis:
    Meeting lips and twining fingers
    In the mild Atlantis springtime?
    How should I know ...
  • Invocation
    Whither, O, my sweet mistress, must I follow thee?
    For when I hear thy distant footfall nearing,
    And wait on thy appearing,
    Lo! my lips are silent: no words come to me. ...
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Where's the steward?-Bar-room steward? Berth? Oh, any berth will do-
I have left a three-pound billet just to come along with you.
Brighter shines the Star of Rovers on a world that-s growing wide,
But I think I-d give a kingdom for a glimpse of Sydney-Side.
Run of rocky shelves at sunrise, with their base on ocean-s bed;
Homes of Coogee, homes of Bondi, and the lighthouse on South Head.
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Has my heart been taught to whisper, -You belong to Sydney-Side.-
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