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  2. Pen Pictures by Australian Poets.

    Here is roaring flood in winter When the storm flag flies. And the quick-fire lightnings splinter Glod from night-black skies. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 65 words
  3. AN OLD HUT.

    Year by year the old rain crumbles, Friend of the sad forsaken days, soon to be taken or Time that tumbles Down the pride of our works and ways ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 60 words
  4. TO A BLACK GIN.

    Daughter of Eve, draw near, I would behold thos. Good Life ! Could ever arm of man enfold thee ? Did the same Nature that made Phryne mould thee Come thou to leeward; for ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 115 words
  5. THE OLD CAMP-OVEN.

    We don't keep a grand piano in our hut beside the creek, And I'm pretty certain Hannah couldn't bang it, anyhow; ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 131 words
  6. THE MAN WHO STEADIES THE LEAD.

    He was born in the light of red caths And nursed by the drought and the flood, And swaddled in sweat-lined saddle-cloths And christ ned in spur-drawn blood; ...

    Article : 93 words
  7. DAWN.

    O'er the Eastern hills at light While the dim world slept Dawn the sculptor stepped, And the shapeless block of Night ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 34 words
  8. THE FOSSICKER.

    Bare-boned and hard, with thin longthair and beard, With horny hands that gripped like iron pliers; A clear, qaick eye a heart that nothing feared, A soul full simple in its few desired. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 37 words
  9. OUT BACK.

    And dirty and careless and old he wore, as his lamp of hope grew dim; He tramped for years till the swag he bore seemed part of himself to him. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 85 words
  10. KING BILL'S SKULL.

    Alas, poor Billy, I know him well, In his full corporeal personnal But a man might give his own father the go by were there only his brain pan left to know by. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 95 words
  11. LOADING WOOL.

    Tropic climate iron vessel, greasy wool— peculiar smell; Down below the atmosphere is -somuthing worse than words will tell; ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 79 words
  12. BY THE CREEK.

    Where the myrtles grow thick by the bend of the creek, And the shads of the the-oak is cool, When the stream turns aside its silver tide ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 34 words
  13. THE RUSH FOR GOLD.

    The mountains swarm like a human hive, The picks are swinging in many a drive, The axe is ringing on many a tree, And the blast of a charge thunders sullenly; ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 104 words
  14. THE TEAMS.

    With eyes half-shut to the blinding dust, And nock to the dust bent low, The b[?]sts are pulling as bullocks must; And the shining tires might almost rust ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 67 words
  15. THE SHANTY ON THE RISE.

    When the caravan of wool-teams climbed the ranges from the west, 0n a spur among the mountains stood "The Bullockdrivers' Rest": ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 68 words
  16. A GOLDFIELD.

    Oh, who would p[?] a goldfield, And limn the picture right. As we have often seen it in early morning's light: ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 108 words
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