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Won't you help support DayPoems? New CountryBy Mary Hannay FoottBorn 9/26/1846Conde had come with us all the way -- Eight hundred miles -- but the fortnight's rest Made him fresh as a youngster, the sturdy bay! And Lurline was looking her very best. Weary and footsore, the cattle strayed 'Mid the silvery saltbush well content; Where the creeks lay cool 'neath the gidya's shade The stock-horses clustered, travel-spent. In the bright spring morning we left them all -- Camp, and cattle, and white, and black -- And rode for the Range's westward fall, Where the dingo's trail was the only track. Slow through the clay-pans, wet to the knee, With the cane-grass rustling overhead; Swift o'er the plains with never a tree; Up the cliffs by a torrent's bed. Bridle on arm for a mile or more We toiled, ere we reached Bindanna's verge And saw -- as one sees a far-off shore -- The blue hills bounding the forest surge. An ocean of trees, by the west wind stirred, Rolled, ever rolled, to the great cliff's base; And its sound like the noise of waves was heard 'Mid the rocks and the caves of that lonely place. We recked not of wealth in stream or soil As we heard on the heights the breezes sing; We felt no longer our travel-toil; We feared no more what the years might bring. DayPoems Poem No. 876 Comment on DayPoems? If you are like us, you have strong feelings about poetry, and about each poem you read. Let it all out! Comment on this poem, any poem, DayPoems, other poetry places or the art of poetry at DayPoems Feedback. Won't you help support DayPoems? Click here to learn more about how you can keep DayPoems on the Web . . . Copyright The DayPoems web site, www.daypoems.net, is copyright 2001-2005 by Timothy K. Bovee. All rights reserved. The authors of poetry and other material appearing on DayPoems retain full rights to their work. Any requests for publication in other venues must be negotiated separately with the authors. The editor of DayPoems will gladly assist in putting interested parties in contact with the authors. |
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