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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395984" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Plains</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Half-lost in film of faintest lawn,<br>A single star in armour white<br>Upon the dreamy heights of dawn<br>Guards dim frontier of the night,<br>Till plumed ray<br>And golden spray<br>Have washed its trembling light away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun has peeped above the blue;<br>His level lances as they pass<br>Have shot the dew-drops thro' and thro',<br>And dashed with rubies all the grass,<br>And silver sound<br>Of horse-bells round<br>Floats softly o'er the jewelled ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sunbeam and the wanton wind,<br>Among the feathery tufts at play,<br>Sing to the earth: &quot;The night is blind,<br>But we will kiss your tears away.&quot;<br>With broad'ning glow<br>And rippling flow<br>Adown the laughing leagues they go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The vagrant lark on wayward winds<br>Is fluttering low, is floating high;<br>No Northern trill of rapture rings<br>Tho' the vast temple of the sky;<br>But not in vain<br>Thy southern strain,<br>Thou brown-winged angel of the plain!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here, where the days are dull and grey,<br>And youth has stilled his joyous song,<br>In fancy yet I love to stray<br>By creek, and plain, and billabong,<br>To the curlew's call<br>And the noiseless fall<br>Of the unshod hoof 'neath the gum-trees tall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hear one more the plovers &quot;peet:&quot;<br>The grey hawk wheels in dizzy height,<br>And swift beneath my horse's feet<br>The brown quail rises in his fright,<br>And the galahs fly<br>With pink breasts high,<br>A rosy cloud in a cloudless sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Afar I mark the emu's run;<br>The bustard slow, in motley clad;<br>And, basking in his bath of sun,<br>The brown snake on the cattle-pad,<br>And the reddish black<br>Of a dingo's back<br>As he loit'ring slinks on my horse's track.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now I watch, with slackened rein,<br>The scattered cattle, hundreds strong,<br>As slowly moving home again<br>The lazy vanguard feeds along<br>To the waters cool<br>Of the tree-fringed pool<br>In the distant creek when the noon is full.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slip girth and let the old horse graze;<br>The noon grows heavy on the air.<br>Kindle the tiny camp-fire's blaze,<br>And neath the shade, as monarch there,<br>Take thou thine ease:<br>For hours like these<br>A king had bartered satrapies!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here lie and watch, thro' smoke-wreaths cool,<br>By yon sunk log and floating wrack,<br>The emporer of the silent pool,<br>The stately heron, white and black,<br>Afar from heat,<br>Upon his beat,<br>Knee-deep in shallowy retreat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O mellow air! O sunny light!<br>O hope and youth that pass away!<br>Inscribe in letters of delight<br>Upon each heart one golden day -<br>To be there set<br>When we forget<br>There is a joy in living yet!</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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A single star in armour white
Upon the dreamy heights of dawn
Guards dim frontier of the night,
Till plumed ray
And golden spray
Have washed its trembling light away.

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