<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357889" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Golden Age</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it the dawn of a Golden Age<br>And a swift release from pain?<br>The politicians fight and rage<br>Where doubt and chaos reign.<br>But out on the fields, with one accord,<br>And small concern for bed or board,<br>Men follow the lure of the Golden Star<br>Out where the sand and the mulgas are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Oh, the old dry blower's out again,<br>And the windlass, pan and pick:<br>For hope, high hope, has come to men<br>Where the miners muster thick.<br>They have made a strike at the seventy mile,<br>And the urgent fever grows the while;<br>And luck may come or fortune frown,<br>But these are men who are ne'er cast down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A lucky find by the old creek bed,<br>A shaft in the blue-bush plain,<br>And a thousand hungry folk are fed.<br>A reef with a wide, rich vein,<br>And a nation knows surcease of gloom,<br>Depression changes to a boom:<br>And the fever grows as the news goes forth<br>From Leeuwin to the farthest north.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Is it the dawn of a Golden Age?<br>Oh, the ways of man are strange;<br>For the miner's hectic pilgrimage<br>By hungry plain or range.<br>Where never a blade of wheat has grown,<br>Where never a seed has yet been sown,<br>Shall feed the land if, 'neath this ground,<br>Gold, and the hope of men be found.</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=357889" data-title="The Golden Age de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Is it the dawn of a Golden Age And a swift release from pain? The politicians fight and rage Where doubt and chaos reign. But out on the fields, with one accord, And small concern for bed or board, Men follow the lure of the Golden Star Out where ..."></div> </div> </div>

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