<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357508" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Country Roads ~ The New Chum Road</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A new chum went, to ease his care,<br>A-many years ago,<br>To loiter round Toolangi where<br>The stately blue gums grow.<br>No bushcraft had he for his quest,<br>No friend to be his guide,<br>But sought the grade that served him best,<br>From Yarra's plain to mountain crest,<br>And crossed the Great Divide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And round and round the hills he wound<br>No lilting tramp song sang he<br>First East, then North, then West-ward bound.<br>An easy grade at last he found<br>That led him to Toolangi.<br>And tho' they vowed his trail a freak,<br>The men that followed after<br>No straighter, easier path might seek,<br>Yet named the brook the New Chum Creek,<br>With rough, good-humored laughter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They followed on his trail for years<br>With many a stout bush load:<br>Till came at last wise engineers<br>To build a goodly road.<br>With plan and scale and instrument<br>They sought the mountain side<br>To find the way the new chum went,<br>The best, as clearly evident,<br>To cross the Great Divide,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So round and round that hilly around<br>The pleasant track goes weaving.<br>Who seek its hillsides, blossom bound,<br>By many a gum and fern-tree crowned<br>Will find small cause for grieving.<br>The New Chum Road 'tis called today;<br>And they who travel round it,<br>And drive along that verdant way,<br>Will find it in their hearts to say:<br>'Good luck to him that found it.'</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=357508" data-title="Country Roads ~ The New Chum Road de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="A new chum went, to ease his care, A-many years ago, To loiter round Toolangi where The stately blue gums grow. No bushcraft had he for his quest, No friend to be his guide, But sought the grade that served him best, From Yarra's plain to mountain..."></div> </div> </div>

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