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Australian ,[object Object],Bush,[object Object],Poet,[object Object],“Clancy of,[object Object],The ,[object Object],Overflow”,[object Object]
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better,[object Object]
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,,[object Object]
He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,,[object Object]
Just `on spec', addressed as follows, `Clancy, of The Overflow'.,[object Object]
And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,,[object Object]
(And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar),[object Object]
'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:,[object Object]
`Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.',[object Object]
In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy,[object Object]
Gone a-droving `down the Cooper' where the Western drovers go;,[object Object]
As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing,[object Object]
For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.,[object Object]
And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him,[object Object]
In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,,[object Object]
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,,[object Object]
And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars.,[object Object]
I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy,[object Object]
Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,,[object Object]
And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city,[object Object]
Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all,[object Object]
And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle,[object Object]
Of the tramways and the 'buses making hurry down the street,,[object Object]
And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting,,[object Object]
Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.,[object Object]
And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me,[object Object]
As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,,[object Object]
With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy,,[object Object]
For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.,[object Object]
And I somehow rather fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy,,[object Object]
Like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go,,[object Object]
While he faced the round eternal of the cash-book and the journal --,[object Object]
But I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy, of `The Overflow'.,[object Object]
But I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy, of `The Overflow'.,[object Object]
Clancy of the overflow

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