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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342264" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bannerman of the Dandenong</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I rode through the Bush in the burning noon, <br> Over the hills to my bride, -- <br>The track was rough and the way was long, <br>And Bannerman of the Dandenong, <br> He rode along by my side. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A day's march off my Beautiful dwelt, <br> By the Murray streams in the West; -- <br>Lightly lilting a gay love-song <br>Rode Bannerman of the Dandenong, <br> With a blood-red rose on his breast. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Red, red rose of the Western streams" <br> Was the song he sang that day -- <br>Truest comrade in hour of need, -- <br>Bay Mathinna his peerless steed -- <br> I had my own good grey. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There fell a spark on the upland grass -- <br> The dry Bush leapt into flame; -- <br>And I felt my heart go cold as death, <br>And Bannerman smiled and caught his breath, -- <br> But I heard him name Her name. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down the hill-side the fire-floods rushed, <br> On the roaring eastern wind; -- <br>Neck and neck was the reckless race, -- <br>Ever the bay mare kept her pace, <br> But the grey horse dropped behind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He turned in the saddle -- "Let's change, I say!" <br> And his bridle rein he drew. <br>He sprang to the ground, -- "Look sharp!" he said <br>With a backward toss of his curly head -- <br> "I ride lighter than you!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down and up -- it was quickly done -- <br> No words to waste that day! -- <br>Swift as a swallow she sped along, <br>The good bay mare from Dandenong, -- <br> And Bannerman rode the grey. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hot air scorched like a furnace blast <br> From the very mouth of Hell: -- <br>The blue gums caught and blazed on high <br>Like flaming pillars into the sky; . . . <br> The grey horse staggered and fell. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Ride, ride, lad, -- ride for her sake!" he cried; -- <br> Into the gulf of flame <br>Were swept, in less than a breathing space <br>The laughing eyes, and the comely face, <br> And the lips that named HER name. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She bore me bravely, the good bay mare; -- <br> Stunned, and dizzy and blind, <br>I heard the sound of a mingling roar -- <br>'Twas the Lachlan River that rushed before, <br> And the flames that rolled behind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Safe -- safe, at Nammoora gate, <br> I fell, and lay like a stone. <br>O love! thine arms were about me then, <br>Thy warm tears called me to life again, -- <br> But -- O God! that I came alone! -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We dwell in peace, my beautiful one <br> And I, by the streams in the West, -- <br>But oft through the mist of my dreams along <br>Rides Bannerman of the Dandenong, <br> With the blood-red rose on his breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alice+Werner">Alice Werner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342264" data-title="Bannerman of the Dandenong de Alice Werner" data-description="I rode through the Bush in the burning noon, Over the hills to my bride, -- The track was rough and the way was long, And Bannerman of the Dandenong, He rode along by my side. A day's march off my Beautifu..."></div> </div> </div>
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