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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408276" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bill the Bullock-Driver</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Leaders of millions, the lords of the lands,<br>Who sway the wide world with their will<br>And shake the great globe with the strength of their hands,<br>Flash past us—unnoticed by Bill. <br>The elders of science who measure the spheres<br>And weigh the vast bulk of the sun—<br>Who see the grand lights beyond aeons of years,<br>Are less than a bullock to one. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The singers that sweeten all time with their song—<br>Pure voices that make us forget<br>Humanity’s drama of marvellous wrong—<br>To Bill are as mysteries yet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By thunders of battle and nations uphurled,<br>Bill’s sympathies never were stirred:<br>The helmsmen who stand at the wheel of the world<br>By him are unknown and unheard. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What trouble has Bill for the ruin of lands,<br>Or the quarrels of temple and throne,<br>So long as the whip that he holds in his hands<br>And the team that he drives are his own? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As straight and as sound as a slab without crack,<br>Our Bill is a king in his way;<br>Though he camps by the side of a shingle track,<br>And sleeps on the bed of his dray. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A whip-lash to him is as dear as a rose<br>Would be to a delicate maid;<br>He carries his darlings wherever he goes,<br>In a pocket-book tattered and frayed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The joy of a bard when he happens to write<br>A song like the song of his dream<br>Is nothing at all to our hero’s delight<br>In the pluck and the strength of his team. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the kings of the earth, for the faces august<br>Of princes, the millions may shout;<br>To Bill, as he lumbers along in the dust,<br>A bullock’s the grandest thing out. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His four-footed friends are the friends of his choice—<br>No lover is Bill of your dames;<br>But the cattle that turn at the sound of his voice<br>Have the sweetest of features and names. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A father’s chief joy is a favourite son,<br>When he reaches some eminent goal,<br>But the pride of Bill’s heart is the hairy-legged one<br>That pulls with a will at the pole. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His dray is no living, responsible thing,<br>But he gives it the gender of life;<br>And, seeing his fancy is free in the wing,<br>It suits him as well as a wife. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He thrives like an Arab. Between the two wheels<br>Is his bedroom, where, lying up-curled,<br>He thinks for himself, like a sultan, and feels<br>That his home is the best in the world. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, even though cattle, like subjects, will break<br>At times from the yoke and the band,<br>Bill knows how to act when his rule is at stake,<br>And is therefore a lord of the land. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course he must dream; but be sure that his dreams,<br>If happy, must compass, alas!<br>Fat bullocks at feed by improbable streams,<br>Knee-deep in improbable grass. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No poet is Bill, for the visions of night<br>To him are as visions of day;<br>And the pipe that in sleep he endeavours to light<br>Is the pipe that he smokes on the dray. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the mighty, magnificent temples of God,<br>In the hearts of the dominant hills,<br>Bill’s eyes are as blind as the fire-blackened clod<br>That burns far away from the rills. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through beautiful, bountiful forests that screen<br>A marvel of blossoms from heat—<br>Whose lights are the mellow and golden and green—<br>Bill walks with irreverent feet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The manifold splendours of mountain and wood<br>By Bill like nonentities slip;<br>He loves the black myrtle because it is good<br>As a handle to lash to his whip. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thus through the world, with a swing in his tread,<br>Our hero self-satisfied goes;<br>With his cabbage-tree hat on the back of his head,<br>And the string of it under his nose. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor bullocky Bill! In the circles select<br>Of the scholars he hasn’t a place;<br>But he walks like a man, with his forehead erect,<br>And he looks at God’s day in the face. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, rough as he seems, he would shudder to wrong<br>A dog with the loss of a hair;<br>And the angels of shine and superlative song<br>See his heart and the deity there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Few know him, indeed; but the beauty that glows<br>In the forest is loveliness still;<br>And Providence helping the life of the rose<br>Is a Friend and a Father to Bill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Kendall">Henry Kendall</a><div class=q>
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Who sway the wide world with their will
And shake the great globe with the strength of their hands,
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