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Across the stony ridges	A
Across the rolling plain	B
Young Harry Dale the drover	C
Comes riding home again	D
And well his stock horse bears him	E
And light of heart is he	F
And stoutly his old pack horse	G
Is trotting by his knee	F
	-
Up Queensland way with cattle	H
He travelled regions vast	I
And many months have vanished	J
Since home folk saw him last	I
He hums a song of someone	K
He hopes to marry soon	L
And hobble chains and camp ware	M
Keep jingling to the tune	L
	-
Beyond the hazy dado	N
Against the lower skies	O
And yon blue line of ranges	A
The homestead station lies	O
And thitherward the drover	C
Jogs through the lazy noon	L
While hobble chains and camp ware	M
Are jingling to a tune	L
	-
An hour has filled the heavens	P
With storm clouds inky black	Q
At times the lightning trickles	R
Around the drover's track	Q
But Harry pushes onward	S
His horses' strength he tries	O
In hope to reach the river	C
Before the flood shall rise	O
	-
The thunder from above him	E
Goes rolling o'er the plain	B
And down on thirsty pastures	T
In torrents falls the rain	B
And every creek and gully	F
Sends forth its little flood	U
Till the river runs a banker	C
All stained with yellow mud	U
	-
Now Harry speaks to Rover	C
The best dog on the plains	V
And to his hardy horses	A
And strokes their shaggy manes	V
We've breasted bigger rivers	T
When floods were at their height	W
Nor shall this gutter stop us	X
From getting home to night '	-
	-
The thunder growls a warning	Y
The ghastly lightnings gleam	Z
As the drover turns his horses	A
To swim the fatal stream	Z
But oh the flood runs stronger	C
Than e'er it ran before	A2
The saddle horse is failing	Y
And only half way o'er	C
	-
When flashes next the lightning	Y
The flood's grey breast is blank	B2
And a cattle dog and pack horse	G
Are struggling up the bank	B2
But in the lonely homestead	C2
The girl will wait in vain	B
He'll never pass the stations	P
In charge of stock again	D
	-
The faithful dog a moment	D2
Sits panting on the bank	B2
And then swims through the current	D2
To where his master sank	B2
And round and round in circles	R
He fights with failing strength	E2
Till borne down by the waters	T
The old dog sinks at length	E2
	-
Across the flooded lowlands	F2
And slopes of sodden loam	G2
The pack horse struggles onward	S
To take dumb tidings home	G2
And mud stained wet and weary	F
Through ranges dark goes he	F
While hobble chains and tinware	F
Are sounding eerily	F
	-
The floods are in the ocean	K
The stream is clear again	D
And now a verdant carpet	H2
Is stretched across the plain	B
But someone's eyes are saddened	I2
And someone's heart still bleeds	J2
In sorrow for the drover	F
Who sleeps among the reeds	J2

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