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第35章 Eurunderee

There are scenes in the distance where beauty is not,On the desolate flats where gaunt appletrees rot.

Where the brooding old ridge rises up to the breeze From his dark lonely gullies of stringy-bark trees,There are voice-haunted gaps,ever sullen and strange,But Eurunderee lies like a gem in the range.

Still I see in my fancy the dark-green and blue Of the box-covered hills where the five-corners grew;And the rugged old sheoaks that sighed in the bend O'er the lily-decked pools where the dark ridges end,And the scrub-covered spurs running down from the Peak To the deep grassy banks of Eurunderee Creek.

On the knolls where the vineyards and fruit-gardens are There's a beauty that even the drought cannot mar;For I noticed it oft,in the days that are lost,As I trod on the siding where lingered the frost,When the shadows of night from the gullies were gone And the hills in the background were flushed by the dawn.

I was there in late years,but there's many a change Where the Cudgegong River flows down through the range,For the curse of the town with the railroad had come,And the goldfields were dead.And the girl and the chum And the old home were gone,yet the oaks seemed to speak Of the hazy old days on Eurunderee Creek.

And I stood by that creek,ere the sunset grew cold,When the leaves of the sheoaks are traced on the gold,And I thought of old things,and I thought of old folks,Till I sighed in my heart to the sigh of the oaks;For the years waste away like the waters that leak Through the pebbles and sand of Eurunderee Creek.

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