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Birth
Fix this textA Little Journal of Australian Poetry
Fix this textPrice Threepence.
Fix this textVol. 5.
Fix this textSEPTEMBER, 1921.
Fix this textNo. 58.
Fix this textTHE DEAD QUEEN.
Fix this textThey said she had strange ways and fed the poor,
Fix this textThat she could read old books and cross the wise,
Fix this textAnd that she held much speech with serf and boor,
Fix this textFor clog and shoe were equal in her eyes.
Fix this textThey said that her young robes could awe the Nine,
Fix this textAnd set the proudest embassy to school;
Fix this textYet she would close the charters of her line
Fix this textTo melt in tender laughter at her fool.
Fix this textThey said she did not end her grace with men,
Fix this textBut honored from her birth until her death
Fix this textThe smallest stirring thing within its den
Fix this textThat shared with her the magic beat of breath.
Fix this textAll this, and more, they said about her there,
Fix this textAnd I—what was their murmuring to me,
Fix this textWho could remember but her knot of hair,
Fix this textHer eyes like Spanish shells that stoup the sea?
Fix this textEileen Duggan.
Fix this textPOST MERIDIAN.
Fix this textThe time has come for quiet, heart of mine,
Fix this textThe time has come for quiet. Nevermore
Fix this textThose siren voices from the farther shore
Fix this textShall draw thy barque to essay the treacherous brine
Fix this textOf seas uncharted. Here all hope resign
Fix this textOf making landfall never made before
Fix this textOn strange wild coasts whose havens blue pe’er bore
Fix this textOf any ship the keel, save only thine.
Fix this textDreaming amid the dusk of the dying day
Fix this textBeside thy hearth-fire when the world is still,
Fix this textOnly in dreams thou’lt sight the Hesperides!
Fix this textOnly in dreams wilt thou, awaiting, hear
Fix this textThe cry “Land Ho!” the white birds’ screaming shrill,
Fix this textAnd the long-remembered surge of thunderous seas.
Fix this textHelen Power.
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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