<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357570" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Geelong</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The earliest lady in the land,<br>Her pride of caste is high.<br>Where blue Corio's gleaming strand<br>Dream 'neath a peaceful sky,<br>She sat her down by her five towns,<br>And, garbed in best of homespun gowns,<br>She watched life pass her by.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A leisured lady then, and staid,<br>She mused beside her Bay,<br>While Barwon, in the You Yangs shade,<br>Droned thro' the drowsy day.<br>But now comes unaccustomed stir,<br>Since Henry, to enliven her,<br>Sent Lizzie here to stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A spiteful story men once spread,<br>Who sought to work her wrong,<br>About a woman who, they said,<br>Bore three sons hale and strong.<br>And, of the three, they used to tell,<br>Two still survived alive and well;<br>The third was in Geelong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, she lives down that libelled past;<br>Life quickens in her streets;<br>Her mien grows brisk, her trade is vast;<br>With eager hands she meets<br>New ways, and bustles with a will;<br>But, fat and comfortable still,<br>Smiles upon all she greets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alert, yet sensible and sane,<br>As trade comes rushing in,<br>She shrewdly turns it to her gain<br>With sturdy will to win;<br>And still, withal contrives to wear<br>A kindly and complacent air.<br>And woollens next the skin.</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=357570" data-title="Geelong de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="The earliest lady in the land, Her pride of caste is high. Where blue Corio's gleaming strand Dream 'neath a peaceful sky, She sat her down by her five towns, And, garbed in best of homespun gowns, She watched life pass her by. A leisured lady th..."></div> </div> </div>

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