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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408770" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballad Of The Drover</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Across the stony ridges, <br> Across the rolling plain, <br>Young Harry Dale, the drover, <br> Comes riding home again. <br>And well his stock-horse bears him, <br> And light of heart is he, <br>And stoutly his old pack-horse <br> Is trotting by his knee. <br> <br>Up Queensland way with cattle <br> He travelled regions vast; <br>And many months have vanished <br> Since home-folk saw him last. <br>He hums a song of someone <br> He hopes to marry soon; <br>And hobble-chains and camp-ware <br> Keep jingling to the tune. <br> <br>Beyond the hazy dado <br> Against the lower skies <br>And yon blue line of ranges <br> The homestead station lies. <br>And thitherward the drover <br> Jogs through the lazy noon, <br>While hobble-chains and camp-ware <br> Are jingling to a tune. <br> <br>An hour has filled the heavens <br> With storm-clouds inky black; <br>At times the lightning trickles <br> Around the drover's track; <br>But Harry pushes onward, <br> His horses' strength he tries, <br>In hope to reach the river <br> Before the flood shall rise. <br> <br>The thunder from above him <br> Goes rolling o'er the plain; <br>And down on thirsty pastures <br> In torrents falls the rain. <br>And every creek and gully <br> Sends forth its little flood, <br>Till the river runs a banker, <br> All stained with yellow mud. <br> <br>Now Harry speaks to Rover, <br> The best dog on the plains, <br>And to his hardy horses, <br> And strokes their shaggy manes; <br>`We've breasted bigger rivers <br> When floods were at their height <br>Nor shall this gutter stop us <br> From getting home to-night!' <br> <br>The thunder growls a warning, <br> The ghastly lightnings gleam, <br>As the drover turns his horses <br> To swim the fatal stream. <br>But, oh! the flood runs stronger <br> Than e'er it ran before; <br>The saddle-horse is failing, <br> And only half-way o'er! <br> <br>When flashes next the lightning, <br> The flood's grey breast is blank, <br>And a cattle dog and pack-horse <br> Are struggling up the bank. <br>But in the lonely homestead <br> The girl will wait in vain -- <br>He'll never pass the stations <br> In charge of stock again. <br> <br>The faithful dog a moment <br> Sits panting on the bank, <br>And then swims through the current <br> To where his master sank. <br>And round and round in circles <br> He fights with failing strength, <br>Till, borne down by the waters, <br> The old dog sinks at length. <br> <br>Across the flooded lowlands <br> And slopes of sodden loam <br>The pack-horse struggles onward, <br> To take dumb tidings home. <br>And mud-stained, wet, and weary, <br> Through ranges dark goes he; <br>While hobble-chains and tinware <br> Are sounding eerily. <br> <br> . . . . . <br> <br>The floods are in the ocean, <br> The stream is clear again, <br>And now a verdant carpet <br> Is stretched across the plain. <br>But someone's eyes are saddened, <br> And someone's heart still bleeds <br>In sorrow for the drover <br> Who sleeps among the reeds.</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>
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 Across the rolling plain, 
Young Harry Dale, the drover, 
 Comes riding home again. 
And well his stock-horse bears him, 
 And light of heart is he, 
And stoutly his old pack-horse 
 Is trotting by his knee. 
 
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