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Birth
Fix this textA Little Journal of Australian Poetry
Fix this textPrick Threepence.
Fix this textVol. 5.
Fix this textJULY, 1921.
Fix this textNo. 56.
Fix this textTO JENNINGS CARMICHAEL (1921).
Fix this textEven to-day, when commerce stifles dreams,
Fix this textThe songs you sang ring sweet and win us out,
Fix this textHaloing you, white-gowned, white-souled. The shout
Fix this textOf foolish forces dies; the dissonant screams
Fix this textOf streety joy are stilled; no shadow seems
Fix this textTo mar your wattle-thoughts with blurs of doubt,
Fix this textThough gullies of delight are scarred with drought,
Fix this textAnd creeks run harsh, fretted with parrot-themes.
Fix this textAustralian spirit, love us from your spheres!
Fix this textPour down your benisons; forsake us not
Fix this textThough we have wandered far from your sweet years!
Fix this textShall what we were when you were be forgot?
Fix this textThe sword unstained, the shield without a blot?
Fix this textWe love your innocence—love you our tears!
Fix this textHenry Tate.
Fix this textTHE SECRET PAGE.
Fix this textLoud winds, escaped from slinking winter’s ken,
Fix this textUnloosed the flames and set the coals aglow
Fix this textThat made a book of tales of long ago—
Fix this textHis Odyssey the old man told again;
Fix this textOf flood and fire, of pioneering men
Fix this textWho cleared the hills where now glad orchards grow;
Fix this textHe told of droughts that quenched the river’s flow,
Fix this textAnd spoke a name we had not heard till then.
Fix this textHe paused, and to the firelight turned his back;
Fix this textThe book of reminiscences was shut,
Fix this textFor now the pages were become too black,
Fix this textAnd woke from memory’s limbo thoughts that cut
Fix this textThe heart. . . . And. silently he sought the track
Fix this textWhose windings led towards his wifeless hut.
Fix this textGerald Byrne.
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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