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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344173" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Two Devines</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was shearing time at the Myall Lake, <br>And then rose the sound through the livelong day <br>Of the constant clash that the shear-blades make <br>When the fastest shearers are making play; <br>But there wasn't a man in the shearers' lines <br>That could shear a sheep with the two Devines. <br>They had rung the sheds of the east and west, <br>Had beaten the cracks of the Walgett side, <br>And the Cooma shearers had given them best -- <br>When they saw them shear, they were satisfied. <br>From the southern slopes to the western pines <br>They were noted men, were the two Devines. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas a wether flock that had come to hand, <br>Great struggling brutes, that shearers shirk, <br>For the fleece was filled with the grass and sand, <br>And seventy sheep was a big day's work. <br>&quot;At a pound a hundred it's dashed hard lines <br>To shear such sheep,&quot; said the two Devines. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the shearers knew that they's make a cheque <br>When they came to deal with the station ewes; <br>They were bare of belly and bare of neck <br>With a fleece as light as a kangaroo's. <br>&quot;We will show the boss how a shear-blade shines <br>When we reach those ewes,&quot; said the two Devines. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But it chanced next day, when the stunted pines <br>Were swayed and stirred by the dawn-wind's breath, <br>That a message came for the two Devines <br>That their father lay at the point of death. <br>So away at speed through the whispering pines <br>Down the bridle-track rode the two Devines. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was fifty miles to their father's hut, <br>And the dawn was bright when they rode away; <br>At the fall of night, when the shed was shut <br>And the men had rest from the toilsome day, <br>To the shed once more through the darkening pines <br>On their weary steeds came the two Devines. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Well, you're back right sudden,&quot;the super said; <br>&quot;Is the old man dead and the funeral done?&quot; <br>&quot;Well, no sir, he ain't not exactly dead, <br>But as good as dead,&quot; said the eldest son -- <br>&quot;And we couldn't bear such a chance to lose, <br>So we came straight back to tackle the ewes.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">  * </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are shearing ewes at the Myall Lake, <br>And the shed is merry the livelong day <br>With the clashing sound that the shear-blades make <br>When the fastest shearers are making play; <br>And a couple of &quot;hundred and ninety-nines&quot; <br>Are the tallies made by the two Devines.</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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And then rose the sound through the livelong day 
Of the constant clash that the shear-blades make 
When the fastest shearers are making play; 
But there wasn't a man in the shearers' lines 
That could shea..."></div>
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