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All day we had driven the starving sheep to the scrub where the axes ply	A
And the weakest had lagged upon weary feet and dropped from the ranks to die	A
And the crows Hew up from the rotting heaps and the ewes too weak to stand	B
And the fences Haunted red skins like flags and the dour drought held the land	B
And at night as I lay a dreaming I woke and a silver moon	C
Shone fair on a dancing river and laughed to a broad lagoon	C
And the grass turned over the fences and rippled like ripening grain	D
And clouds hung low on the hilltops and earth smelt sweet with the rain	D
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And in at the open window the lowing of cattle came	E
A mob that had never a laggard and never a beast that was lame	E
And wethers a thousand thousand and ewes with their lambs beside	F
Moved over the green flats feeding spread river to ranges wide	F
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And horses whinnied below me and leaning I watched them pass	G
Lusty and strong and playful like horses on spring tide grass	G
When they whinny one to another strong voiced and a gallop brings	H
Foam to the Hank be it only from paddock to stockyard wings	H
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Slowly they moved in the moon mist heads low in the cool night dew	I
Snatching the long bush grasses breast high as they wandered through	I
Slowly they moved in the moon mist and never a horse on the plains	J
Was red with the gall of the collar or marked with a chafe of the chains	J
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And behind them a hundred drovers rode slow on their horses white	K
All brave with their trappings of silver that Hashed in the silver light	K
Buckle and stirrup and bridle and spurs for their better speed	L
Singing behind the cattle like drovers on royal feed	L
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And I cooeed and one came over that rode on the nearest wing	M
And I called to him Ho there drover say whose is the mob you bring	M
Then he reined his horse by the window all silver bitted and shod	N
And spoke and his words rang sadly These are the cattle of God	N
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So I said to him Where are they bound for and he raised his hand to the West	O
They are bound for the star fenced pastures on God's own rivers to rest	O
And I asked him Where did you muster and he answered me sadly again	P
From every gully and sandhill from every valley and plain	D
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From the swamps of the green kapunyah from the reeds at the red creek side	F
From the thickets of twisted mulga from the clay pans furrowed and dried	F
From the track to the Western goldfields from the ruts of the Great North Road	Q
Where the dingoes go and the crows fly low we have gathered the beasts of God	N
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And I said Then has God repented because that He sent no rain	D
And has God looked down in His pity on the poor dumb beasts He has slain	D
But the drover turned in his saddle and answered his eyes in mine	R
Not so for the beasts were slaughtered by man of his greed's design	R
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God gave to them feed and water and pastures so wild and wide	F
They had fed him a thousand million from here to the ocean side	F
But man in his greed came after and fenced them on hill and plain	D
And cursed the God in His heaven that would not send them His rain	D
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And man's be the blame of the bleaching bone and the shame of the rotting hide	F
And the pity of lorn lambs crying alone on the wind swept mountain side	F
Of the weak horse down in his harness of the bullock dead by the dray	S
Of the moan of the thirsty cattle for ever and ever and aye	A
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And he spoke to his steed and left me moved out on the mist it seemed	T
And I woke to the red burned acres and knew that I had but dreamed	T

William Henry Ogilvie

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