Birth : a little journal of Australian poetry

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N 821.05 A BIR
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Melbourne : Melbourne Literary Club, 1916-
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Vol. 5 No. 56 (July 1921)
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Birth  

Little Journal of Australian Poetry  

Prick Threepence.  

Vol. 5.  

JULY, 1921.  

No. 56.  

TO JENNINGS CARMICHAEL (1921).  

Even to-day, when commerce stifles dreams,  

The songs you sang ring sweet and win us out,  

Haloing you, white-gowned, white-souled. The shout  

Of foolish forces dies; the dissonant screams  

Of streety joy are stilled; no shadow seems  

To mar your wattle-thoughts with blurs of doubt,  

Though gullies of delight are scarred with drought,  

And creeks run harsh, fretted with parrot-themes.  

Australian spirit, love us from your spheres!  

Pour down your benisons; forsake us not  

Though we have wandered far from your sweet years!  

Shall what we were when you were be forgot?  

The sword unstained, the shield without blot?  

We love your innocence—love you our tears!  

Henry Tate.  

THE SECRET PAGE.  

Loud winds, escaped from slinking winter’s ken,  

Unloosed the flames and set the coals aglow  

That made book of tales of long ago—  

His Odyssey the old man told again;  

Of flood and fire, of pioneering men  

Who cleared the hills where now glad orchards grow;  

He told of droughts that quenched the river’s flow,  

And spoke name we had not heard till then.  

He paused, and to the firelight turned his back;  

The book of reminiscences was shut,  

For now the pages were become too black,  

And woke from memory’s limbo thoughts that cut  

The heart. And. silently he sought the track  

Whose windings led towards his wifeless hut.  

Gerald Byrne.  

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