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A SKY of wind And while these fitful gusts	A
Are beating round the windows in the cold	B
With sullen sobs of rain behold I shape	C
A settler s story of the wild old times	D
One told by camp fires when the station drays	D
Were housed and hidden forty years ago	E
While swarthy drivers smoked their pipes and drew	F
And crowded round the friendly gleaming flame	G
That lured the dingo howling from his caves	D
And brought sharp sudden feet about the brakes	D
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A tale of Love and Death And shall I say	D
A tale of love in death for all the patient eyes	D
That gathered darkness watching for a son	H
And brother never dreaming of the fate	I
The fearful fate he met alone unknown	J
Within the ruthless Australasian wastes	D
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For in a far off sultry summer rimmed	K
With thundercloud and red with forest fires	D
All day by ways uncouth and ledges rude	L
The wild men held upon a stranger s trail	M
Which ran against the rivers and athwart	N
The gorges of the deep blue western hills	D
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And when a cloudy sunset like the flame	G
In windy evenings on the Plains of Thirst	O
Beyond the dead banks of the far Barcoo	E
Lay heavy down the topmost peaks they came	G
With pent in breath and stealthy steps and crouched	P
Like snakes amongst the grasses till the night	Q
Had covered face from face and thrown the gloom	R
Of many shadows on the front of things	D
	-
There in the shelter of a nameless glen	S
Fenced round by cedars and the tangled growths	D
Of blackwood stained with brown and shot with grey	D
The jaded white man built his fire and turned	T
His horse adrift amongst the water pools	D
That trickled underneath the yellow leaves	D
And made a pleasant murmur like the brooks	D
Of England through the sweet autumnal noons	D
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Then after he had slaked his thirst and used	U
The forest fare for which a healthful day	D
Of mountain life had brought a zest he took	E
His axe and shaped with boughs and wattle forks	D
A wurley fashioned like a bushman s roof	V
The door brought out athwart the strenuous flame	G
The back thatched in against a rising wind	W
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And while the sturdy hatchet filled the clifts	D
With sounds unknown the immemorial haunts	D
Of echoes sent their lonely dwellers forth	X
Who lived a life of wonder flying round	Y
And round the glen what time the kangaroo	F
Leapt from his lair and huddled with the bats	D
Far scattering down the wildly startled fells	D
Then came the doleful owl and evermore	Z
The bleak morass gave out the bittern s call	A2
The plover s cry and many a fitful wail	M
Of chilly omen falling on the ear	B2
Like those cold flaws of wind that come and go	E
An hour before the break of day	D
	-
Anon	S
The stranger held from toil and settling down	S
He drew rough solace from his well filled pipe	C2
And smoked into the night revolving there	D2
The primal questions of a squatter s life	E2
For in the flats a short day s journey past	F2
His present camp his station yards were kept	G2
With many a lodge and paddock jutting forth	X
Across the heart of unnamed prairie lands	D
Now loud with bleating and the cattle bells	D
And misty with the hut fire s daily smoke	E
	-
Wide spreading flats and western spurs of hills	D
That dipped to plains of dim perpetual blue	F
Bold summits set against the thunder heaps	D
And slopes behacked and crushed by battling kine	S
Where now the furious tumult of their feet	H2
Gives back the dust and up from glen and brake	E
Evokes fierce clamour and becomes indeed	I2
A token of the squatter s daring life	E2
Which growing inland growing year by year	J2
Doth set us thinking in these latter days	D
And makes one ponder of the lonely lands	D
Beyond the lonely tracks of Burke and Wills	D
Where when the wandering Stuart fixed his camps	D
In central wastes afar from any home	K2
Or haunt of man and in the changeless midst	L2
Of sullen deserts and the footless miles	D
Of sultry silence all the ways about	M2
Grew strangely vocal and a marvellous noise	D
Became the wonder of the waxing glooms	D
	-
Now after darkness like a mighty spell	N2
Amongst the hills and dim dispeopled dells	D
Had brought a stillness to the soul of things	D
It came to pass that from the secret depths	D
Of dripping gorges many a runnel voice	D
Came mellowed with the silence and remained	O2
About the caves a sweet though alien sound	Y
Now rising ever like a fervent flute	P2
In moony evenings when the theme is love	Q2
Now falling as ye hear the Sunday bells	D
While hastening fieldward from the gleaming town	S
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Then fell a softer mood and memory paused	R2
With faithful love amidst the sainted shrines	D
Of youth and passion in the valleys past	F2
Of dear delights which never grow again	S
And if the stranger who had left behind	W
Far anxious homesteads in a wave swept isle	S2
To face a fierce sea circle day by day	D
And hear at night the dark Atlantic s moan	S
Now took a hope and planned a swift return	S
With wealth and health and with a youth unspent	T2
To those sweet ones that stayed with want at home	K2
Say who shall blame him though the years are long	E
And life is hard and waiting makes the heart grow old	B
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Thus passed the time until the moon serene	S
Stood over high dominion like a dream	U2
Of peace within the white transfigured woods	D
And o er the vast dew dripping wilderness	D
Of slopes illumined with her silent fires	D
	-
Then far beyond the home of pale red leaves	D
And silver sluices and the shining stems	D
Of runnel blooms the dreamy wanderer saw	D
The wilder for the vision of the moon	S
Stark desolations and a waste of plain	S
All smit by flame and broken with the storms	D
Black ghosts of trees and sapless trunks that stood	V2
Harsh hollow channels of the fiery noise	D
Which ran from bole to bole a year before	Z
And grew with ruin and was like indeed	I2
The roar of mighty winds with wintering streams	D
That foam about the limits of the land	W2
And mix their swiftness with the flying seas	D
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Now when the man had turned his face about	M2
To take his rest behold the gem like eyes	D
Of ambushed wild things stared from bole and brake	E
With dumb amaze and faint recurring glance	D
And fear anon that drove them down the brush	X2
While from his den the dingo like a scout	M2
In sheltered ways crept out and cowered near	J2
To sniff the tokens of the stranger s feast	Y2
And marvel at the shadows of the flame	G
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Thereafter grew the wind and chafing depths	D
In distant waters sent a troubled cry	Z2
Across the slumb rous forest and the chill	A3
Of coming rain was on the sleeper s brow	B3
When flat as reptiles hutted in the scrub	C3
A deadly crescent crawled to where he lay	D
A band of fierce fantastic savages	D
That starting naked round the faded fire	D3
With sudden spears and swift terrific yells	D
Came bounding wildly at the white man s head	E3
And faced him staring like a dream of Hell	N2
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Here let me pass I would not stay to tell	N2
Of hopeless struggles under crushing blows	D
Of how the surging fiends with thickening strokes	D
Howled round the stranger till they drained his strength	F3
How Love and Life stood face to face with Hate	I
And Death and then how Death was left alone	S
With Night and Silence in the sobbing rains	D
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So after many moons the searchers found	Y
The body mouldering in the mouldering dell	N2
Amidst the fungi and the bleaching leaves	D
And buried it and raised a stony mound	Y
Which took the mosses Then the place became	G
The haunt of fearful legends and the lair	D2
Of bats and adders	D
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There he lies and sleeps	D
From year to year in soft Australian nights	D
And through the furnaced noons and in the times	D
Of wind and wet Yet never mourner comes	D
To drop upon that grave the Christian s tear	D2
Or pluck the foul dank weeds of death away	D
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But while the English autumn filled her lap	G3
With faded gold and while the reapers cooled	H3
Their flame red faces in the clover grass	D
They looked for him at home and when the frost	I3
Had made a silence in the mourning lanes	D
And cooped the farmers by December fires	D
They looked for him at home and through the day	D

Henry Kendall

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