<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=429723" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Country Towns</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Country towns, with your willows and squares,<br>And farmers bouncing on barrel mares<br>To public houses of yellow wood<br>With '1860' over their doors,<br>And that mysterious race of Hogans<br>Which always keeps the General Stores….</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the School of Arts, a broadsheet lies<br>Sprayed with the sarcasm of flies:<br>'The Great Golightly Family<br>Of Entertainers Here To-night'–<br>Dated a year and a half ago, <br>But left there, less from carelessness<br>Than from a wish to seem polite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Verandas baked with musky sleep,<br>Mulberry faces dozing deep,<br>And dogs that lick the sunlight up<br>Like paste of gold – or, roused in vain<br>By far, mysterious buggy-wheels,<br>Lower their ears, and drowse again….</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Country towns with your schooner bees,<br>And locusts burnt in the pepper-trees,<br>Drown me with syrups, arch your boughs,<br>Find me a bench, and let me snore,<br>Till, charged with ale and unconcern,<br>I'll think it's noon at half-past four!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kenneth+Slessor">Kenneth Slessor</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=429723" data-title="Country Towns de Kenneth Slessor" data-description="Country towns, with your willows and squares, And farmers bouncing on barrel mares To public houses of yellow wood With '1860' over their doors, And that mysterious race of Hogans Which always keeps the General Stores…. At the School of Arts, a..."></div> </div> </div>

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