<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343950" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Australian Scenery</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Mountains <br>A land of sombre, silent hills, where mountain cattle go <br>By twisted tracks, on sidelings deep, where giant gum trees grow <br>And the wind replies, in the river oaks, to the song of the stream below. <br>A land where the hills keep watch and ward, silent and wide awake <br>As those who sit by a dead campfire, and wait for the dawn to break, <br>Or those who watched by the Holy Cross for the dead Redeemer's sake. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A land where silence lies so deep that sound itself is dead <br>And a gaunt grey bird, like a homeless soul, drifts, noiseless, overhead <br>And the world's great story is left untold, and the message is left unsaid. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The Plains <br>A land as far as the eye can see, where the waving grasses grow <br>Or the plains are blackened and burnt and bare, where the false mirages go <br>Like shifting symbols of hope deferred -- land where you never know. <br>Land of plenty or land of want, where the grey Companions dance, <br>Feast or famine, or hope or fear, and in all things land of chance, <br>Where Nature pampers or Nature slays, in her ruthless, red, romance. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we catch a sound of a fairy's song, as the wind goes whipping by, <br>Or a scent like incense drifts along from the herbage ripe and dry <br>-- Or the dust storms dance on their ballroom floor, where the bones of the cattle lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</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=343950" data-title="Australian Scenery de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="The Mountains A land of sombre, silent hills, where mountain cattle go By twisted tracks, on sidelings deep, where giant gum trees grow And the wind replies, in the river oaks, to the song of the stream below. A land where the hills keep watch..."></div> </div> </div>

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