<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344187" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Under the Shadow of Kiley's Hill</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the place where they all were bred; <br>Some of the rafters are standing still; <br>Now they are scattered and lost and dead, <br>Every one from the old nest fled, <br>Out of the shadow of Kiley's Hill. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Better it is that they ne'er came back -- <br>Changes and chances are quickly rung; <br>Now the old homestead is gone to rack, <br>Green is the grass on the well-worn track <br>Down by the gate where the roses clung. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gone is the garden they kept with care; <br>Left to decay at its own sweet will, <br>Fruit trees and flower-beds eaten bare, <br>Cattle and sheep where the roses were, <br>Under the shadow of Kiley's Hill. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are the children that strove and grew <br>In the old homestead in days gone by? <br>One is away on the far Barcoo <br>Watching his cattle the long year through, <br>Watching them starve in the droughts and die. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One, in the town where all cares are rife, <br>Weary with troubles that cramp and kill, <br>Fain would be done with the restless strife, <br>Fain would go back to the old bush life, <br>Back to the shadow of Kiley's Hill. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One is away on the roving quest, <br>Seeking his share of the golden spoil; <br>Out in the wastes of the trackless west, <br>Wandering ever he gives the best <br>Of his years and strength to the hopeless toil. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What of the parents? That unkempt mound <br>Shows where they slumber united still; <br>Rough is their grave, but they sleep as sound <br>Out on the range as in holy ground, <br>Under the shadow of Kiley's Hill.</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=344187" data-title="Under the Shadow of Kiley's Hill de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="This is the place where they all were bred; Some of the rafters are standing still; Now they are scattered and lost and dead, Every one from the old nest fled, Out of the shadow of Kiley's Hill. Better it is that they ne'er came back -- Cha..."></div> </div> </div>

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