<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357540" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Echuca</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With wood and wool for Adelaide<br>The paddle boats came down<br>When here this spritely river maid<br>Built up her river town.<br>Flanked by the green of spreading gums,<br>Where trade in waxing volume comes<br>Her industry to crown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those were the careless, easy days <br>The days of old romance,<br>When men were prone to casual ways,<br>But she had marked her chance,<br>As gateway of the north and east,<br>To share one day the coming feast<br>Of this wide land's advance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now she, grown old in count of years,<br>Stays young, who dreams her fate<br>Is to arise above her peers<br>And serve a sister State,<br>Handmaid of kindlier kinship when<br>Madness and folly fall from men<br>And they, with towns, grow great.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The paddle boats, with wool and wood,<br>Churned lazily along<br>When peace seemed sure, when life seemed good,<br>Ere all a world went wrong.<br>Strife wells; yet, valiant as of yore<br>Old Murray sings without her door<br>Of hope an ageless song.</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=357540" data-title="Echuca de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="With wood and wool for Adelaide The paddle boats came down When here this spritely river maid Built up her river town. Flanked by the green of spreading gums, Where trade in waxing volume comes Her industry to crown. Those were the careless, easy..."></div> </div> </div>

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