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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344126" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mountain Squatter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here in my mountain home, <br>On rugged hills and steep, <br>I sit and watch you come, <br>O Riverinia Sheep! <br>You come from the fertile plains <br>Where saltbush (sometimes) grows, <br>And flats that (when it rains) <br>Will blossom like the rose. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when the summer sun <br>Gleams down like burnished brass, <br>You have to leave your run <br>And hustle off for grass. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis then that -- forced to roam -- <br>You come to where I keep, <br>Here in my mountain home, <br>A boarding-house for sheep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Around me where I sit <br>The wary wombat goes -- <br>A beast of little wit, <br>But what he knows, he knows. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The very same remark <br>Applies to me also; <br>I don't give out a spark, <br>But what I know, I know. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My brain perhaps would show <br>No convolutions deep, <br>But anyhow I know <br>The way to handle sheep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These Riverina cracks, <br>They do not care to ride <br>The half-inch hanging tracks <br>Along the mountain side. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their horses shake with fear <br>When loosened boulders go <br>With leaps, like startled deer, <br>Down to the gulfs below. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their very dogs will shirk, <br>And drop their tails in fright <br>When asked to go and work <br>A mob that's out of sight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My little collie pup <br>Works silently and wide; <br>You'll see her climbing up <br>Along the mountain side. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As silent as a fox <br>You'll see her come and go, <br>A shadow through the rocks <br>Where ash and messmate grow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, lost to sight and sound <br>Behind some rugged steep, <br>She works her way around <br>And gathers up the sheep; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, working wide and shy, <br>She holds them rounded up. <br>The cash ain't coined to buy <br>That little collie pup. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so I draw a screw <br>For self and dog and keep <br>To boundary-ride for you, <br>O Riverina Sheep! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, when the autumn rain <br>Has made the herbage grow, <br>You travel off again, <br>And glad -- no doubt -- to go. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But some are left behind <br>Around the mountain's spread, <br>For those we cannot find <br>We put them down as dead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, when we say adieu <br>And close the boarding job, <br>I always find a few <br>Fresh ear-marks in my mob. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, what with those I sell, <br>And what with those I keep, <br>You pay me pretty well, <br>O Riverina Sheep! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's up to me to shout <br>Before we say good-bye -- <br>&quot;Here's to a howlin' drought <br>All west of Gundagai!&quot;</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>
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On rugged hills and steep, 
I sit and watch you come, 
O Riverinia Sheep! 
You come from the fertile plains 
Where saltbush (sometimes) grows, 
And flats that (when it rains) 
Will blossom like the rose. 

But when the s..."></div>
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