<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427769" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bullocky</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beside his heavy-shouldered team<br>thirsty with drought and chilled with rain,<br>he weathered all the striding years<br>till they ran widdershins in his brain:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till the long solitary tracks<br>etched deeper with each lurching load<br>were populous before his eyes,<br>and fiends and angels used his road.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the long straining journey grew<br>a mad apocalyptic dream,<br>and he old Moses, and the slaves<br>his suffering and stubborn team.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then in his evening camp beneath<br>the half-light pillars of the trees<br>he filled the steepled cone of night<br>with shouted prayers and prophecies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While past the campfire's crimson ring<br>the star struck darkness cupped him round.<br>and centuries of cattle-bells<br>rang with their sweet uneasy sound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grass is across the wagon-tracks,<br>and plough strikes bone beneath the grass,<br>and vineyards cover all the slopes<br>where the dead teams were used to pass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O vine, grow close upon that bone<br>and hold it with your rooted hand.<br>The prophet Moses feeds the grape,<br>and fruitful is the Promised Land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Judith+Wright">Judith Wright</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=427769" data-title="Bullocky de Judith Wright" data-description="Beside his heavy-shouldered team thirsty with drought and chilled with rain, he weathered all the striding years till they ran widdershins in his brain: Till the long solitary tracks etched deeper with each lurching load were populous before his ..."></div> </div> </div>

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