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A dusty clearing in the scrubs	A
Of barren western lands	A
Where out of sight or sign of hope	B
The wretched school house stands	A
A roof that glares at glaring days	A
A bare unshaded wall	C
A fence that guards no blade of green	D
A dust storm over all	C
The books and slates are packed away	E
The maps are rolled and tied	F
And for an hour I breathe and lay	E
My ghastly mask aside	F
I linger here to save my head	G
From voices shrill and thin	H
That rasp for ever in the shed	G
The home I m boarding in	H
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The heat and dirt and wretchedness	A
With which their lives began	I
Bush mother nagging day and night	J
And sullen brooding man	I
The minds that harp on single strings	A
And never bright by chance	A
The rasping voice of paltry things	A
The hopeless ignorance	A
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I had ideals when I came here	K
A noble purpose had	L
But all that they can understand	M
Is axe to grind or mad	L
I brood at times till comes a fear	N
That sets my brain awhirl	E
I fight a strong man s battle here	K
And I am but a girl	E
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I hated paltriness and deemed	O
A breach of faith a crime	P
I listen now to scandal s voice	A
In sewing lesson time	P
There is a thought that haunts me so	A
And gathers strength each day	E
Shall I as narrow minded grow	A
As mean of soul as they	E
	-
The feuds that rise from paltry spite	J
Or from no cause at all	E
The brooding dark suspicious minds	A
I suffer for it all	E
They do not dream the Teacher knows	A
What brutal thoughts are said	G
The children call me Pigeon Toes	A
Green Eyes and Carrot Head	G
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On phantom seas of endless change	Q
My thoughts to madness roam	R
The only thing that keeps me here	K
The thoughts of those at home	R
The hearts that love and cling to me	S
That I love best on earth	T
My mother left in poverty	S
My brother blind from birth	T
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On burning West Australian fields	A
In that great dreadful land	M
Where all day long the heat waves flow	A
O er the seas of glowing sand	M
My elder brother toils and breaks	A
That great true heart of his	A
To rescue us from poverty	S
To rescue me from this	A
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And one is with him where he goes	A
My brother s mate and mine	U
He never called me Pigeon Toes	A
He said my eyes were fine	U
And his face comes before me now	V
And hope and courage rise	A
The lines of life the troubled brow	V
Firm mouth and kind grey eyes	A
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I preach content and gentleness	A
And mock example give	W
They little think the Teacher hates	A
And loathes the life they live	X
I told the infants fairy tales	A
But half an hour since	A
They little dream how Pigeon Toes	A
Prays for a fairy Prince	A
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I have one prayer and God forgive	W
A selfish prayer and wild	Y
I kneel down by the infants stool	E
For I am but a child	Y
And pray as I ve prayed times untold	Z
That Heaven will set a sign	U
To guide my brother to the gold	Z
For mother s sake and mine	U
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A dust cloud on the lonely road	A2
And I am here alone	B2
I lock the door till it be past	C2
For I have nervous grown	B2
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God spare me disappointment s blow	A
He stops beside the gate	D2
A voice thrill feeling that I know	A
My brother No His mate	D2
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His eyes a proud triumphant smile	E
His arms outstretched and Come	E2
For Jack and I have made our pile	E
And I m here to take you home	R

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