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FOR one whole day and a long night through	A
We made our camp	B
In a she oak grove by a coastal swamp	C
Our tent gleamed white in the she oak trees	D
Whose falling hair	E
Made a soft brown mist in the sweet blue air	E
A sound subdued from their tresses rose	F
A moan a sigh	G
As of unseen seas when the breeze went by	G
'Twas wattle time and the scented bloom	H
New lit and young	I
In a mass of gold from the still trees hung	I
There music dwelt and a splendour moved	J
Through all the day	K
From the green of dawn to the twilight gray	K
For careless ever like one who goes	F
Where Joyance leads	L
Sang the little reed bird in the tall green reeds	L
Blue swift and slender the dragonflies	L
A hawking flew	A
And a hawk hung poised in the burning blue	A
A crane slow flapping its great wings passed	M
Across the scene	N
And a parrot jewelled the leafy screen	N
In twos and threes from the hills around	O
The peewits came	P
And the brush flower burnt like a crimson flame	P
On ti tree trunk and on frond and log	Q
The lizards slept	R
While the sun moved west and the shadows crept	R
The sun moved west and the tall hills sent	S
Broad shadows east	T
And the reed bird's song in the reed beds ceased	T
Then fell a hush and within that hush	U
Rose clear and shrill	V
A cicada note on a distant hill	V
A note of farewell it seemed to us	L
Its singing bore	W
And the night came down and it sang no more	W
Night came with shadows and fitful gleams	L
And mist and damp	B
And our fire burned red by the coastal swamp	C
Then life not known of the daytime woke	X
That life that preys	L
On the feathered things of the leafy ways	L
We heard feet moving and velvet wings	L
On swamp and height	Y
And a dingo howling across the night	Y
As faces lit by the red camp fire	Z
We mused enthralled	A2
Like a lone lost spirit a curlew called	A2
Brown crickets sang in the moisty mould	B2
And every breeze	L
Drew a moaning note from the she oak trees	L
And all night long as they swayed and moaned	C2
Strange fancies woke	X
And we could not rest for the things they spoke	X
Thus much and more through the hours we saw	L
Thus much we heard	D2
In that place of blossom and tree and bird	D2
Since then gold wattles have bloomed and bloomed	E2
And moons aloft	F2
In the sky have wizened and waned full oft	F2
And yet at times when the night is still	V
In dreams I tramp	B
Through the white sand dunes to that coastal camp	B

Roderic Quinn

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