<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357648" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Kilmore</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kilmore cares not who comes nigh.<br>But, with a calm, incurious eye,<br>She sees the swift cars speeding by,<br>Then turns again to labor.<br>She is content to plod along.<br>With now a sigh, when things go wrong,<br>And now a smile and now a song<br>Or gossip with a neighbor.<br>Her mind dwells often in the past,<br>The roaring days that could not last<br>When men might travel not so fast,<br>And all the world was bigger.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She saw the coaches clatter down<br>To pause at her important town<br>With loud-voiced venturers strong and brown,<br>And many a bearded digger.<br>She saw the eager traffic flow<br>Upon the road to Bendigo,<br>With talk of many a golden show,<br>Of finds and fields exciting.<br>But wisely she contrived to hold<br>A treasure greater far than gold,<br>Where her rich pasture lands unfold<br>A scene far more inviting.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She smiles to dream of those old days<br>Of hearty men and hectic ways<br>When, maddened by the golden craze,<br>Men sought their fortunes blindly.<br>But she, who chose the better part<br>Of patient toil and simple art,<br>Lives on, content of mind and heart,<br>And generous and kindly.<br>So, wealthy now, she sits at ease<br>In this kind land of fields and trees,<br>Ignoring all our flippancies<br>And modern fads and crazes.<br>And, where old buildings, tumbling down,<br>Leave scars about her ancient town,<br>The hasty mock her homely gown;<br>The wise man waits and praises.</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=357648" data-title="Kilmore de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Kilmore cares not who comes nigh. But, with a calm, incurious eye, She sees the swift cars speeding by, Then turns again to labor. She is content to plod along. With now a sigh, when things go wrong, And now a smile and now a song Or gossip with a..."></div> </div> </div>

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