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From the rainy hill heads where in starts and in spasms	A
Leaps wild the white torrent from chasms to chasms	A
From the home of bold echoes whose voices of wonder	B
Fly out of blind caverns struck black by high thunder	B
Through gorges august in whose nether recesses	A
Is heard the far psalm of unseen wildernesses	A
Like a dominant spirit a strong handed sharer	B
Of spoil with the tempest comes down the Narrara	B
Yea where the great sword of the hurricane cleaveth	C
The forested fells that the dark never leaveth	C
By fierce featured crags in whose evil abysses	A
The clammy snake coils and the flat adder hisses	A
Past lordly rock temples where Silence is riven	D
By the anthems supreme of the four winds of heaven	D
It speeds with the cry of the streams of the fountains	A
It chained to its sides and dragged down from the mountains	A
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But when it goes forth from the slopes with a sally	E
Being strengthened with tribute from many a valley	E
It broadens and brightens and thereupon marches	A
Above the stream sapphires and under green arches	A
With the rhythm of majesty careless of cumber	B
Its might in repose and its fierceness in slumber	B
Till it beams on the plains where the wind is a bearer	B
Of words from the sea to the stately Narrara	B
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Narrara grand son of the haughty hill torrent	F
Too late in my day have I looked at thy current	F
Too late in my life to discern and inherit	G
The soul of thy beauty the joy of thy spirit	G
With the years of the youth and the hairs of the hoary	B
I sit like a shadow outside of thy glory	B
Nor look with the morning like feelings O river	B
That illumined the boy in the days gone for ever	B
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Ah sad are the sounds of old ballads which borrow	B
One half of their grief from the listener s sorrow	B
And sad are the eyes of the pilgrim who traces	A
The ruins of Time in revisited places	A
But sadder than all is the sense of his losses	A
That cometh to one when a sudden age crosses	A
And cripples his manhood So stricken by fate I	H
Felt older at thirty than some do at eighty	B
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Because I believe in the beautiful story	B
The poem of Greece in the days of her glory	B
That the high seated Lord of the woods and the waters	A
Has peopled His world with His deified daughters	A
That flowerful forests and waterways streaming	I
Are gracious with goddesses glowing and gleaming	I
I pray that thy singing divinity fairer	B
Than wonderful women may listen Narrara	B
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O spirit of sea going currents thou being	I
The child of immortals all knowing all seeing	I
Thou hast at thy heart the dark truth that I borrow	B
For the song that I sing thee no fanciful sorrow	B
In the sight of thine eyes is the history written	D
Of Love smitten down as the strong leaf is smitten	D
And before thee there goeth a phantom beseeching	I
For faculties forfeited hopes beyond reaching	I
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Thou knowest O sister of deities blazing	I
With splendour ineffable beauty amazing	I
What life the gods gave me what largess I tasted	J
The youth thrown away and the faculties wasted	J
I might as thou seest have stood in high places	A
Instead of in pits where the brand of disgrace is	A
A byword for scoffers a butt and a caution	D
With the grave of poor Burns and Maginn for my portion	D
But the heart of the Father Supreme is offended	J
And my life in the light of His favour is ended	J
And whipped by inflexible devils I shiver	B
With a hollow Too late in my hearing for ever	B
But thou being sinless exalted supernal	E
The daughter of diademed gods the eternal	E
Shalt shine in thy waters when time and existence	A
Have dwindled like stars in unspeakable distance	A
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But the face of thy river the torrented power	B
That smites at the rock while it fosters the flower	B
Shall gleam in my dreams with the summer look splendid	J
And the beauty of woodlands and waterfalls blended	J
And often I ll think of far forested noises	A
And the emphasis deep of grand sea going voices	A
And turn to Narrara the eyes of a lover	B
When the sorrowful days of my singing are over	B

Henry Kendall

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