Around the Boree Log, and Other Verses

When that hour comes, and I am drifting slow To azure distance stretching on, and on, and on; When earth’s coast-lights are dim and blurred and burning low, And other stars rise...

’Tis the greatest splash of sunshine right through all my retrospection On the days when fairies brought me golden dreams without alloy, When I gazed across the gum-trees round...

Keen she was about “the learnin’,” and she told us o’er and o’er Of our luck to have “the schoolin’” right against our very door. And the lectures—Oh, those lectures to our ston...

And his hat was like a Quaker’s; but some fifteen hundred acres More than evened up the lee-way of the said deficiency (Faith, he had a tidy cottage on the little property). So,...

“’Tis that Casey girl now have him caught, And her mother out baking the bread; It is there she should be, so she ought, With the eyes dancing jigs in her head; Faith, when I wa...

Now someone driving through the rain will happen in, I bet; So fill the fountain up again, and leave the table set. For this was ours with pride to say—and all the world defy— N...