<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408668" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lake Eliza</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE SAND was heavy on our feet,<br>A Christmas sky was o’er us,<br>And half a mile through dust and heat<br>Lake ’Liza lay before us.<br>‘You’ll have a long and heavy tramp’—<br>So said the last adviser—<br>‘You can’t do better than to camp<br>To-night at Lake Eliza.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We quite forgot our aching shanks,<br>A cheerful spirit caught us;<br>We thought of green and shady banks,<br>We thought of pleasant waters.<br>’Neath sky as niggard of its rain<br>As of his gold the miser,<br>By mulga scrub and lignum plain<br>We’d tramp’d to Lake Eliza.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A patch to grey discoloured sand,<br>A fringe of tufty grasses,<br>A lonely pub in mulga scrub<br>Is all the stranger passes.<br>He’d pass the Lake a dozen times<br>And yet be none the wiser;<br>I hope that I shall never be<br>As dry as Lake Eliza.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No patch of green or water seen<br>To cheer the weary plodder;<br>The grass is tough as fencing-wire,<br>And just as good for fodder.<br>And when I see it mentioned in<br>Some local ADVERTISER,<br>’Twill make me laugh, or make me grin—<br>The name of ‘Lake Eliza.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</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=408668" data-title="Lake Eliza de Henry Lawson" data-description="THE SAND was heavy on our feet, A Christmas sky was o’er us, And half a mile through dust and heat Lake ’Liza lay before us. ‘You’ll have a long and heavy tramp’— So said the last adviser— ‘You can’t do better than to camp To-nig..."></div> </div> </div>

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