<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357445" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballarat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The digger's cultured daughter:<br>Her youth was wildly free.<br>Now by the placid water<br>Of tree-girt Wendouree<br>She walks, a gracious lady,<br>Where sculptured beauty gleams<br>By verdant paths and shady,<br>And dreams her golden dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her father was a digger,<br>Bearded and blunt and crude,<br>His hand quick to the trigger<br>Should tyranny intrude.<br>With lifts of sudden riches<br>He heaped his hoyden lass,<br>Whose flowering new bewitches<br>With beauty all who pass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For she has sown her gardens<br>To hide the scars of greed,<br>And, where the old dump hardens,<br>Springs many a fruitful seed.<br>And, as she gathers graces<br>In loveliness to last,<br>Serenity replaces<br>A turbulence long past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her father was a miner,<br>Great in his day and age;<br>But here to ideals finer<br>She shapes her heritage.<br>Until it spreads in glamor,<br>A wonder to behold<br>Of peace come after clamor,<br>Of grace that followed gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357445" data-title="Ballarat de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="The digger's cultured daughter: Her youth was wildly free. Now by the placid water Of tree-girt Wendouree She walks, a gracious lady, Where sculptured beauty gleams By verdant paths and shady, And dreams her golden dreams. Her father was a digger..."></div> </div> </div>

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