See TORU DUTT, Rudyard KipLING, in the preceding division of this Anthology. See also, in the second division, SIR EDWIN ARnold, Sir ALFRED LYALL, poets of English birth, and sometime resident in India AUSTRALASIA (See also: A. DOMETT, R. H. Horne, W. Sharp, D. B. W. SLADEN) Only there's a drowsy humming Every other thing is still, Oh, 't is easeful here to lie AN ABORIGINAL MOTHER'S LAMENT STILL farther would I fly, my child, To make thee safer yet From the unsparing white man, With his dread hand murder-wet! And but for thee, I would their fire Hark! Hark! I hear his death-cry Yet lengthening up the blast! On the roaring pyre flung bleeding- No more shall his loud tomahawk Beneath his shadowing spear; Robert Lowe, Wiscount Sherbrooke SONG OF THE SQUATTER THE Commissioner bet me a pony- I won, So he cut off exactly two-thirds of my run; For he said I was making a fortune too fast, And profit gained slower the longer would last. He remarked, as devouring my mutton he sat, That I suffered my sheep to grow sadly too fat; That they wasted waste land, did prerogative brown, And rebelliously nibbled the droits of the Crown; "But none can outlast her, and few travel faster, She strides in her work clean away from The Drag; You hold her and sit her, she could n't be fitter, Whenever you hit her she 'll spring like a stag. "And p'raps the green jacket, at odds though they back it, May fall, or there's no knowing what may turn up. The mare is quite ready, sit still and ride steady, Keep cool; and I think you may just win the Cup." Dark-brown with tan muzzle, just stripped for the tussle, Stood Iseult, arching her neck to the curb, A lean head and fiery, strong quarters and wiry, A loin rather light, but a shoulder superb. Some parting injunction, bestowed with great unction, I tried to recall, but forgot like a dunce, When Reginald Murray, full tilt on White Surrey, Came down in a hurry to start us at once. "Keep back in the yellow! Come up on Othello! Hold hard on the chestnut ! Turn round on The Drag! Keep back there on Spartan! Back you, sir, in tartan! So, steady there, easy," and down went the flag. We started, and Kerr made strong running on Mermaid. Through furrows that led to the first stake-and-bound, The crack, half extended, looked bloodlike and splendid, Held wide on the right where the headland was sound. I pulled hard to baffle her rush with the snaffle, Before her two-thirds of the field got away, All through the wet pasture where floods of the last year Still loitered, they clotted my crimson with clay. The fourth fence, a wattle, floored Monk and Blue-bottle; The Drag came to grief at the blackthorn and ditch, The rails toppled over Redoubt and Red Rover, The lane stopped Lycurgus and Leicestershire Witch. She passed like an arrow Kildare and Cock Sparrow, And Mantrap and Mermaid refused the stone wall; And Giles on The Greyling came down at the paling, And I was left sailing in front of them all. I took them a burster, nor eased her nor nursed her Until the Black Bullfinch led into the plough, And through the strong bramble we bored with a scramble My cap was knocked off by the hazeltree bough. Where furrows looked lighter I drew the rein tighter; |