<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357451" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bendigo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A golden maid whose golden voice<br>Calls to the northern lands,<br>Of riches she has had her choice.<br>Twin treasures to make men rejoice<br>Came easy to her hands:<br>The golden harvest of broad fields,<br>Or that dark gift of sudden yields<br>Won from her golden sands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But men have scorned her worthier pride<br>In rich and fruitful soil;<br>And, spreading desolation wide,<br>Ranged all her verdant countryside<br>To ravage and despoil.<br>And now grey wastes of tortured earth<br>Await the glory of rebirth<br>Thro' nature's patient toil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She has the wish, she has the will<br>To gather beauty round.<br>Though gold's fierce lure stays with her still,<br>She lives to plan and strive until<br>Springs from this barren ground<br>Earth's only treasure, scorned of yore,<br>And smiling verdure clothes once more<br>Full many a bare, bleak mound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She guards the gateway of the north <br>The broad lands of the sun.<br>Hospitably her hand goes forth,<br>Eager to vindicate the worth<br>Of happier tasks begun,<br>And in gay gardens to express<br>A newer urge to loveliness<br>And kinder virtues won.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A virile lass, in no wise strange,<br>Of true Australian breed:<br>Where drab days into sunlight charge<br>Across the Great Dividing Range<br>She scatters now the seed<br>That shall bring yields a thousandfold<br>When gardens count for more than gold<br>And peace outvalues greed.</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=357451" data-title="Bendigo de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="A golden maid whose golden voice Calls to the northern lands, Of riches she has had her choice. Twin treasures to make men rejoice Came easy to her hands: The golden harvest of broad fields, Or that dark gift of sudden yields Won from her golden s..."></div> </div> </div>

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