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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354826" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A MIDSUMMER NOON IN THE AUSTRALIAN FOREST </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not a bird disturbs the air! <br>There is quiet everywhere; <br>Over plains and over woods <br>What a mighty stillness broods. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even the grasshoppers keep <br>[All the birds and insects keep] <br>Where the coolest shadows sleep; <br>Even the busy ants are found <br>Resting in their pebbled mound; <br>Even the locust clingeth now <br>In silence to the barky bough: <br>And over hills and over plains <br>Quiet, vast and slumbrous, reigns. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only there's a drowsy humming <br>From yon warm lagoon slow coming: <br>'Tis the dragon-hornet - see! <br>All bedaubed resplendently <br>With yellow on a tawny ground - <br>Each rich spot nor square nor round, <br>But rudely heart-shaped, as it were <br>The blurred and hasty impress there, <br>Of vermeil-crusted seal <br>Dusted o'er with golden meal: <br>Only there's a droning where <br>Yon bright beetle gleams the air - <br>Gleams it in its droning flight <br>[Tracks it in its gleaming flight] <br>With a slanting track of light, <br>Till rising in the sunshine higher, <br>[Rising in the sunshine higher,] <br>Its shards flame out like gems on fire. <br>[Till its shards flame out like fire.] </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every other thing is still, <br>Save the ever wakeful rill, <br>Whose cool murmur only throws <br>A cooler comfort round Repose; <br>Or some ripple in the sea <br>Of leafy boughs, where, lazily, <br>Tired Summer, in her forest bower <br>Turning with the noontide hour, <br>Heaves a slumbrous breath, ere she <br>Once more slumbers peacefully. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">0 'tis easeful here to lie <br>Hidden from Noon's scorching eye, <br>In this grassy cool recess <br>Musing thus of Quietness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">two versions of this poem have been located. The relevant changes are included in the text in square brackets, i.e. &quot;[...]&quot;. <br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Harpur">Charles Harpur</a><div class=q>
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Not a bird disturbs the air! 
There is quiet everywhere; 
Over plains and over woods 
What a mighty stillness broods. 

Even the grasshoppers keep 
[All the birds and insects keep] 
Where the coolest sha..."></div>
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