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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374821" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To The Men Of The Mines</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WE SPECKED as boys o’er worked-out ground<br>By littered fiat and muddy stream,<br>We watched the whim horse trudging round,<br>And rode upon the circling beam,<br>Within the old uproarious mill<br>Fed mad, insatiable stamps,<br>Mined peaceful gorge and gusty hill<br>With pan, and pick, and gad, and drill,<br>And knew the stir of sudden camps.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By yellow dams in summer days<br>We puddled at the tom; for weeks<br>Went seeking up the tortuous ways<br>Of gullies deep and hidden creeks.<br>We worked the shallow leads in style,<br>And hunted fortune down the drives,<br>And missed her, mostly by a mile—<br>Once by a yard or so. The while<br>We lived untrammelled, easy lives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through blazing days upon the brace<br>We laboured, and when night had passed<br>Beheld the glory and the grace<br>Of wondrous dawns in bushlands vast.<br>We heard the burdened timbers groan<br>In deep mines murmurous as the seas<br>On long, lone shores by drear winds blown.<br>We’ve seen heroic deeds, and known<br>The digger’s joys and tragedies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I write in rhyme of all these things,<br>With little skill, perhaps, but you,<br>To whom each tale a memory brings<br>Of bygone days, will know them true.<br>Should mates who’ve worked in stope and face,<br>Who’ve trenched the hill and swirled the dish,<br>Or toiled upon the plat and brace,<br>Find pleasure in the lines I trace,<br>No better welcome could I wish.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+George+Dyson">Edward George Dyson</a><div class=q>
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By littered fiat and muddy stream,
We watched the whim horse trudging round,
And rode upon the circling beam,
Within the old uproarious mill
Fed mad, insatiable stamps,
Mined peaceful gorge and gusty hil..."></div>
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