THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 195, 17 August 1912, Page 6

THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH.

l?he wind, liko a lost soul hurled from oh high Thrilling moans; a dingo'a mournful jbark; On vagrant breezes floats from forest dark; Often is heard a curlew's boding cry l?he plain mysterious is as fax as eye Can mark, all bathed in the moon's pal© beams, Softly they sink upon the earth in streams, (Spreading a misty radiance far and

nigh, Who knoweth why the spirit, thus will feel With pain and sadness overwhelmed, wnen in The silent bush? Can mortal e'er

reveal What daunts the unfearing soul as weight of »in t Perchance it is that God seems to us there

Nearer than in the city's eri\ air