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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395967" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At The Base Hospital</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The willows sweep the water, and the rushes lean a-down,<br>And I see the river shining far away,<br>With a snowy cloud above it, floating softly, like a crown,<br>And the water-hen and wildfowl at their play.<br>Are the magpies still at battle in the crooked appletrees?<br>Is the ripple flow still singing at the bar,<br>By the long-grassed sandstone pocket where the cattle lie at ease?<br>And the sun is on the river at Glenbar. <br>They are bringing in the dying, they are bearing out the dead,<br>And I watch the nurses moving to and fro,<br>In the long, low, white-washed wardroom, I lie dreaming on my bed,<br>And it may be that I, too, shall have to go.<br>But we faced the Mauser bullets when they whistled down the wind,<br>And we felt the fight we fought was worth a scar,<br>For we battled for the Empire and the land we left behind<br>And I battled for the honour of Glenbar. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Half-dead upon the barren veldt I heard the stockwhips crack<br>(’Twas the rattle of the Maxim’s deadly rain),<br>I was riding old Campaspe, as we wheeled the leaders back,<br>And brought them down the ridges to the plain.<br>I saw the slip-rails gleaming, and I heard the river flow—<br>Then Brenda’s face came shining like a star,<br>And we watched the water-finches, as they fluttered to and fro,<br>And the lilies on the river at Glenbar. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’ve seen an army moving out a hundred thousand strong,<br>I’ve felt the thrill of battle and the smart,<br>But I’d barter all the glory for a day at Dandenong,<br>With the cool hand of the Bush upon my heart,<br>They say we drove their rifles back like chaff before the wind,<br>They say our name and fame have travelled far—<br>But my heart is full of hunger for the girl I left behind,<br>And the old folk by the river at Glenbar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Essex+Evans">George Essex Evans</a><div class=q>
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