John Shaw Neilson Night Poems

• 1. Tell Summer That I Died
  When he was old and thin
  And knew not night or day
  He would sit up to say
  Something of the fire within.
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• 2. O Heart Of Spring
  O HEART of Spring!
  Spirit of light and love and joyous day,
  So soon to faint beneath the fiery Summer:
  Still smiles the Earth, eager for thee alway:
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• 3. Schoolgirls Hastening
  Fear it has faded and the night:
  The bells all peal the hour of nine:
  The schoolgirls hastening through the light
  Touch the unknowable Divine.
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• 4. The Land Where I Was Born
  HAVE you ever been down to my countree
  Where the trees are green and tall?
  The days are long and the heavens are high,
  But the people there are small.
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• 5. The Poor, Poor Country
  Oh 'twas a poor country, in Autumn it was bare,
  The only green was the cutting grass and the sheep found little there.
  Oh, the thin wheat and the brown oats were never two foot high,
  But down in the poor country no pauper was I.
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• 6. The Gentle Water Bird (for Mary Gilmore)
  In the far days, when every day was long,
  Fear was upon me and the fear was strong,
  Ere I had learned the recompense of song.
  
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• 7. Old Granny Sullivan
  A pleasant shady place it is, a pleasant place and cool -
  The township folk go up and down, the children pass to school.
  Along the river lies my world, a dear sweet world to me:
  I sit and learn - I cannot go; there is so much to see.
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• 8. The Break Of Day
  THE STARS are pale.
  Old is the Night, his case is grievous,
  His strength doth fail.
  
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