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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408833" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Great Grey Plain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out West, where the stars are brightest, <br> Where the scorching north wind blows, <br>And the bones of the dead gleam whitest, <br> And the sun on a desert glows -- <br>Yet within the selfish kingdom <br> Where man starves man for gain, <br>Where white men tramp for existence -- <br> Wide lies the Great Grey Plain. <br> <br>No break in its awful horizon, <br> No blur in the dazzling haze, <br>Save where by the bordering timber <br> The fierce, white heat-waves blaze, <br>And out where the tank-heap rises <br> Or looms when the sunlights wane, <br>Till it seems like a distant mountain <br> Low down on the Great Grey Plain. <br> <br>No sign of a stream or fountain, <br> No spring on its dry, hot breast, <br>No shade from the blazing noontide <br> Where a weary man might rest. <br>Whole years go by when the glowing <br> Sky never clouds for rain -- <br>Only the shrubs of the desert <br> Grow on the Great Grey Plain. <br> <br>From the camp, while the rich man's dreaming, <br> Come the `traveller' and his mate, <br>In the ghastly dawnlight seeming <br> Like a swagman's ghost out late; <br>And the horseman blurs in the distance, <br> While still the stars remain, <br>A low, faint dust-cloud haunting <br> His track on the Great Grey Plain. <br> <br>And all day long from before them <br> The mirage smokes away -- <br>That daylight ghost of an ocean <br> Creeps close behind all day <br>With an evil, snake-like motion, <br> As the waves of a madman's brain: <br>'Tis a phantom NOT like water <br> Out there on the Great Grey Plain. <br> <br>There's a run on the Western limit <br> Where a man lives like a beast, <br>And a shanty in the mulga <br> That stretches to the East; <br>And the hopeless men who carry <br> Their swags and tramp in pain -- <br>The footmen must not tarry <br> Out there on the Great Grey Plain. <br> <br>Out West, where the stars are brightest, <br> Where the scorching north wind blows, <br>And the bones of the dead seem whitest, <br> And the sun on a desert glows -- <br>Out back in the hungry distance <br> That brave hearts dare in vain -- <br>Where beggars tramp for existence -- <br> There lies the Great Grey Plain. <br> <br>'Tis a desert not more barren <br> Than the Great Grey Plain of years, <br>Where a fierce fire burns the hearts of men -- <br> Dries up the fount of tears: <br>Where the victims of a greed insane <br> Are crushed in a hell-born strife -- <br>Where the souls of a race are murdered <br> On the Great Grey Plain of Life!</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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 Where the scorching north wind blows, 
And the bones of the dead gleam whitest, 
 And the sun on a desert glows -- 
Yet within the selfish kingdom 
 Where man starves man for gain, 
Where white men tramp ..."></div>
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