Down by the slipralls stands our cow
Chewing, chewing, chewing,
She does not care what folks out there
In the great, big world are doing.
She sees the small cloud-shadows pass
And green grass shining under.
If she does think, what does she think
About it all, I wonder?
She sees the swallows skimming by
Above the sweet young clover,
The light reeds swaying in the wind
And tall trees bending over.
Far down the track she hears the crack
of bullock-whips, and raving
Of angry men where, in the sun,
Her fellow-beasts are slaving.
Girls, we are told, can scratch and scold,
And boys will fight and wrangle,
And big, grown men, just now and then,
Fret o'er some fingle-fangle,
Vexing the earth with grief or mirth,
Longing, rejoicing, rueing -
But by the slipralls stands our cow,
Chewing.
In a published book
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I won't ask, how he knows that the cow doesn't care what we are doing when just a few lines later he admits to not knowing what she thinks, or if she thinks.
But that isn't really important, for it's a pleasant poem for children with a nice little moral about (I assume) enjoying life's simplicity. I guess people of all ages could benefit from that advice.
I like Mr. Dennis, his work seems to have a pleasing, unaffected style.
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