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  • The Colours Of Light
    This is not easy to understand
    For you that come from a distant land
    48 lines, 4 comments
  • My Country
    The love of field and coppice,
    Of green and shaded lanes.
    52 lines, 42 comments
  • Colour
    The lovely things that I have watched unthinking,
    Unknowing, day by day,
    38 lines, 7 comments
  • The Dreamer
    Over the crest of the Hill of Sleep,
    Over the plain where the mists lie deep,
    9 lines
  • An Old Song
    The almond bloom is overpast, the apple blossoms blow.
    I never loved but one man, and I never told him so.
    7 lines, 3 comments
  • Burning Off
    They're burning off at the Rampadells,
    The tawny flames uprise,
    28 lines, 3 comments
  • Australia's Men
    THERE are some that go for love of a fight
        And some for love of a land,
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • In A Southern Garden
    WHEN the tall bamboos are clicking to the restless little breeze,
    And bats begin their jerky skimming flight,
    19 lines, 1 comment
  • The Open Sea
    From my window I can see,
    Where the sandhills dip,
    53 lines, 4 comments
  • Dawn
    At the dawning of the day,
    On the road to Gunnedah,
    20 lines, 2 comments
  • The Waiting Life
    Since it befell, with work and strife
    I had not time to live my life
    13 lines, 5 comments
  • Fire
    This life that we call our own
    Is neither strong nor free;
    12 lines, 6 comments
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