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Half waking and half dreaming	A
While starry lamps hung low	B
I saw a vision splendid	C
Upon the darkness glow	B
	-
The Capital Australian	D
With waving banners plumed	C
A shining flower of marble	E
Magnificently bloomed	C
	-
Beside a snow fed river	F
'Twas built in fashion rare	G
Upon a lofty mountain	D
All in a valley fair	G
	-
The stately ships were sailing	A
Like brides with flowing trains	H
To seek its secret harbor	F
Amidst Australian plains	H
	-
And all around it flourished	C
Luxuriantly free	I
The giant gum and mangrove	J
The crimson desert pea	I
	-
And I beheld a building	A
That made a stately show	B
The National Australian	D
Head Poetry Bureau	B
	-
I gazed upon that Building	A
With trembling joy aghast	C
The long felt want of ages	K
Was filled I thought at last	C
	-
No more the Native Poet	C
Need wildly beat his head	C
For lofty lyric measures	L
To buy him beer and bed	C
	-
Now he would lodge right nobly	I
And sleep serene secure	M
All in a chamber filled with	N
Adhesive furniture	F
	-
For never foot of Bailiff	O
Should pass his threshold o'er	F
And never knock of landlord	C
Sound direful on his door	P
	-
The State should also aid him	Q
To build his lofty rhyme	R
On lordly eggs and bacon	D
And sausages sublime	R
	-
And he should drink no longer	F
Cheap beer at common bar	S
But royal wine of Wunghnu	D
At two and nine the jar	S
	-
It was a vision splendid	C
And brighter still did grow	B
When I was made the Chief of	T
The Poetry Bureau	B
	-
They clad me all in purple	E
They hung me with festoons	L
My singing robes were spangled	C
With aluminium moons	L
	-
And as a sign of genius	L
Above the common kind	C
A wreath of gilded laurel	E
Around my hat they twined	C
	-
They also gave me power to	C
The grain sift from the chaff	U
And choose at my large pleasure	F
My own poetic staff	U
	-
Then straightaway I appointed	C
To chant by day and night	C
The brilliant young Australian	D
Who sang 'The Land of Light '	-
	-
I also gave in fashion	D
Hilariously free	I
The Girl and Horse Department	C
In charge of Ogilvie	I
	-
And on the roof ridge Brady	I
Sang salt junk chanties great	C
To cheer the stout sea lawyers	L
Who sail the Ship of State	C
	-
And tender hearted Lawson	D
Sang everybody's wrongs	L
And Brennan in the basement	C
Crooned weird symbolic songs	L
	-
And on the throne beside me	I
Above the common din	D
He sang his Songs of Beauty	I
My friend the poet Quinn	D
	-
Our own Australian artists	L
Made beautiful its halls	L
The mighty steeds of Mahony	I
Pranced proudly on the walls	L
	-
Tom Roberts he was there too	C
With painted portraits fine	D
Of men of light and leading	A
Me and some friends of mine	D
	-
And Souter's Leering Lady	I
'Neath hat and over fan	D
With Souter's cat was ogling	A
His check clothed gentleman	D
	-
And Fischer Ashton Lister	F
With beetling genius rife	V
Pardieu I was their Patron	D
And set them up for life	V
	-
And from each dusky corner	F
In petrified new birth	W
Glared busts of Me and Barton	D
By Nelson Illingworth	W
	-
And nine fair Muses dwelt there	G
With board and lodging free	I
Six by the States were chosen	D
And I selected three	I
	-
And there we turned out blithely	I
Australian poems sound	C
To sell in lengths like carpet	C
And also by the pound	C
	-
For Paddy Quinn the Statesman	D
Had made a law which said	C
That native authors only	I
On pain of death be read	C
	-
O brother bards I grieve that	C
Good dreams do not come true	C
You see how very nobly	I
I would have done to you	C
	-
But ah the vision vanished	C
And took away in tow	B
The National Australian	D
Head Poetry Bureau	B

Victor James Daley

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