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quot There's no sense in going further	A
it's the edge of cultivation quot	B
So they said and I believed it	B
broke my land and sowed my crop	C
Built my barns and strung my fences	D
in the little border station	E
Tucked away below the foothills	F
where the trails run out and stop	C
	-
Till a voice as bad as Conscience	G
rang interminable changes	D
In one everlasting Whisper	A
day and night repeated so	H
quot Something hidden Go and find it	B
Go and look behind the Ranges	D
Something lost behind the Ranges	D
Lost and waiting for you Go quot	B
	-
So I went worn out of patience	G
never told my nearest neighbours	G
Stole away with pack and ponies	G
left 'em drinking in the town	I
And the faith that moveth mountains	G
didn't seem to help my labours	G
As I faced the sheer main ranges	G
whipping up and leading down	I
	-
March by march I puzzled through 'em	J
turning flanks and dodging shoulders	G
Hurried on in hope of water	A
headed back for lack of grass	G
Till I camped above the tree line	K
drifted snow and naked boulders	G
Felt free air astir to windward	B
knew I'd stumbled on the Pass	G
	-
'Thought to name it for the finder	A
but that night the Norther found me	L
Froze and killed the plains bred ponies	G
so I called the camp Despair	M
It's the Railway Cap today though	H
Then my whisper waked to hound me	L
quot Something lost behind the Ranges	G
Over yonder Go you there quot	B
	-
Then I knew the while I doubted	B
knew His Hand was certain o'er me	L
Still it might be self delusion	E
scores of better men had died	B
I could reach the township living	N
but He knows what terrors tore me	L
But I didn't but I didn't	B
I went down the other side	B
	-
Till the snow ran out in flowers	G
and the flowers turned to aloes	G
And the aloes sprung to thickets	G
and a brimming stream ran by	O
But the thickets dwined to thorn scrub	P
and the water drained to shallows	G
And I dropped again on	Q
desert blasted earth and blasting sky	O
	-
I remember lighting fires	G
I remember sitting by them	R
I remember seeing faces	G
hearing voices through the smoke	S
I remember they were fancy	G
for I threw a stone to try 'em	J
quot Something lost behind the Ranges quot	B
was the only word they spoke	S
	-
I remember going crazy	G
I remember that I knew it	B
When I heard myself hallooing	S
to the funny folk I saw	G
Very full of dreams that desert	B
but my two legs took me through it	B
And I used to watch 'em moving	S
with the toes all black and raw	T
	-
But at last the country altered	B
White Man's country past disputing	S
Rolling grass and open timber	A
with a hint of hills behind	B
There I found me food and water	A
and I lay a week recruiting	S
Got my strength and lost my nightmares	G
Then I entered on my find	B
	-
Thence I ran my first rough survey	U
chose my trees and blazed and ringed 'em	J
Week by week I pried and sampled	B
week by week my findings grew	V
Saul he went to look for donkeys	G
and by God he found a kingdom	J
But by God who sent His Whisper	A
I had struck the worth of two	V
	-
Up along the hostile mountains	G
where the hair poised snowslide shivers	G
Down and through the big fat marshes	G
that the virgin ore bed stains	G
Till I heard the mild wide mutterings	G
of unimagined rivers	G
And beyond the nameless timber	A
saw illimitable plains	G
	-
Plotted sites of future cities	G
traced the easy grades between 'em	J
Watched unharnessed rapids wasting	S
fifty thousand head an hour	A
Counted leagues of water frontage	W
through the axe ripe woods that screen 'em	J
Saw the plant to feed a people	X
up and waiting for the power	A
	-
Well I know who'll take the credit	B
all the clever chaps that followed	B
Came a dozen men together	A
never knew my desert fears	G
Tracked me by the camps I'd quitted	B
used the water holes I'd hollowed	B
They'll go back and do the talking	S
They'll be called the Pioneers	G
	-
They will find my sites of townships	G
not the cities that I set there	M
They will rediscover rivers	G
not my rivers heard at night	B
By my own old marks and bearings	G
they will show me how to get there	M
By the lonely cairns I builded	B
they will guide my feet aright	B
	-
Have I named one single river	A
Have I claimed one single acre	A
Have I kept one single nugget	B
barring samples No not I	O
Because my price was paid me	G
ten times over by my Maker	A
But you wouldn't understand it	B
You go up and occupy	O
	-
Ores you'll find there wood and cattle	X
water transit sure and steady	G
That should keep the railway rates down	I
coal and iron at your doors	G
God took care to hide that country	G
till He judged His people ready	G
Then He chose me for His Whisper	A
and I've found it and it's yours	G
	-
Yes your quot never never country quot	G
yes your quot edge of cultivation quot	G
And quot no sense in going further quot	G
till I crossed the range to see	G
God forgive me No I didn't	G
It's God's present to our nation	E
Anybody might have found it	G
but His Whisper came to Me	G

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