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Ben Hall was out on Lachlans side	A
With a thousand pounds on his head	B
A score of troopers were scattered wide	A
And a hundred more were ready to ride	A
Wherever a rumour led	B
	-
They had followed his track from the	C
Weddin Heights And north by the Weelong yards	D
Through dazzling days and moonlit nights	E
They had sought him over their rifle sights	E
With their hands on their trigger guards	D
	-
The outlaw stole like a hunted fox	F
Through the scrub and stunted heath	G
And peered like a hawk from his eyrie rocks	F
Through the waving boughs of the sapling box	F
On the troopers riding beneath	G
	-
His clothes were rent by the clutching thorn	H
And his blistered feet were bare	I
Ragged and torn with his beard unshorn	H
He hid like a beast forlorn	H
With a padded path to his lair	I
	-
But every night when the white stars rose	J
He crossed by the Gunning Plain	H
To a stockman's hut where the Gunning flows	J
And struck on the door three swift light blows	J
And a hand unhooked the chain	H
	-
And the outlaw followed the lone path back	K
With food for another day	L
And the kindly darkness covered his track	K
And the shadows swallowed him deep and black	K
Where the starlight melted away	L
	-
But his friend had read of the big reward	M
And his soul was stirred with greed	N
He fastened his door and window board	M
He saddled his horse and crossed the ford	M
And spurred to the town at speed	N
	-
You may ride at a man's or maid's behest	O
When honour or true love call	P
And steel your heart to the worst or the best	O
But the ride that is ta'en on a traitor's quest	O
Is the bitterest ride of all	P
	-
A hot wind blew from the Lachlan bank	Q
And a curse on its shoulder came	R
The pine trees frowned at him rank on rank	Q
The sun on a gathering storm cloud sank	Q
And flushed his cheek with shame	R
	-
He reigned at the Court and the tale began	H
That the rifles alone should end	S
Sergeant and trooper laid their plan	H
To draw the net on a hunted man	H
At the treacherous word of a friend	S
	-
False was the hand that raised the chain	H
And false was the whispered word	T
'The troopers have turned to the south again	H
You may dare to camp on the Gunning Plain '	-
And the weary outlaw heard	T
	-
He walked from the hut but a quarter mile	U
Where a clump of saplings stood	V
In a sea of grass like a lonely isle	U
And the moon came up in a little while	U
Like silver steeped in blood	W
	-
Ben Hall lay down on the dew wet ground	X
By the side of his tiny fire	Y
And a night breeze woke and he heard no sound	X
As the troopers drew their cordon round	X
And the traitor earned his hire	Y
	-
And nothing they saw in the dim grey light	Z
But the little glow in the trees	A2
And they crouched in the tall cold grass all night	Z
Each one ready to shoot at sight	Z
With his rifle cocked on his knees	A2
	-
When the shadows broke and the dawn's white sword	M
Swung over the mountain wall	P
And a little wind blew over the ford	M
A sargeant sprang to his feet and roared	M
'In the name of the Queen Ben Hall '	-
	-
Haggard the outlaw leapt from his bed	B
With his lean arms held on high	B2
'Fire ' And the word was scarcely said	B
When the mountains rang to rain of lead	B
And the dawn went drifting by	B2
	-
They kept their word and they paid his pay	L
Where a clean man's hand would shrink	C2
And that was the traitor's master day	L
As he stood by the bar on his homeward way	L
And called on the crowd to drink	C2
	-
He banned no creed and he barred no class	D2
And he called to his friends by name	R
But the worst would shake his head and pass	D2
And none would drink from the bloodstained glass	D2
And the goblet red with shame	R
	-
And I know when I hear the last grim call	P
And my mortal hour is spent	E2
When the light is hid and the curtains fall	P
I would rather sleep with the dead Ben Hall	P
Than go where that traitor went	E2

William Henry Ogilvie

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