<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357732" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Town Types No.1 - The Old Town</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fierce on the wheat-sown Mallee plain<br>The ruthless summer suns burned down,<br>And dust-storms, heralding the rain,<br>Swept thro' the street and on again<br>While tradesfolk cursed in the old white town.<br>Of sand and line-stone stoutly built,<br>She'd lived to prosper and to wilt,<br>Because, as all wiseacres knew,<br>'They went and brought the railway thro'.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deep-voiced, bewhiskered townsfolk these,<br>Remnant of pioneering days,<br>Full of high tales and memories<br>Of wild, rough work and wilder sprees,<br> When coach and teamster went their ways;<br>When men pushed out to newer land<br>And cash came easy to the hand <br>And went: The golden days men knew<br>'Before that put that railway thro'.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet even in those days of stress -<br>Or seeming stress - the old town knew<br>Nothing of wnat or wretchedness;<br>For wealth was there and work to bless<br>All men who sought them work to do.<br>To me, a child in those far years,<br>Now as a time-dimmed dream appears<br>The olden life that once I knew<br>After the railway wandered thro'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like myths in some long-fabled tale -<br>Figures and scenes to conjure with<br>They seem. Yet 'spite the deepening veil,<br>Their memories grow never stales;<br>Big George, the lumper; Toll, the smith;<br>Long John, the snob - long have they slept<br>While suns burned down and dustorm swept<br>Across the Mallee plains they knew<br>Before men brought the railway thro'.</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=357732" data-title="Old Town Types No.1 - The Old Town de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Fierce on the wheat-sown Mallee plain The ruthless summer suns burned down, And dust-storms, heralding the rain, Swept thro' the street and on again While tradesfolk cursed in the old white town. Of sand and line-stone stoutly built, She'd lived t..."></div> </div> </div>

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