CAMPING OUT.
Pull bright are the dreams, while the sun goes down O'er the knoll where the plough-boy smiles; Oh, his eyes are bright and his hair is brown, As, half asleep by the drowsy towii, He dreams of the golden isles. It's oh for the life of a digger camp, With its wild-wood logs agleam; And it's oh for a. mate of the fearless 3tE>mp, To seek for the iales, and tramp and tramp, With the- hills and the seas between. Full sweet is life in the western isles. Yv'ith the bright dream half fulfilled — The wash-clut packed in its golden piles By the log-lit tent, and the dre.xrner smiles On the far-off fields untilled; For he dreams away from tha sciub-hemmcd camp, And it's oh for his beating breast. As he tells the talcs, by the honse-lit lamp, Of the seas and the tracks and the ceaseless tramp — Of the golden isles out west. Alps' for the dream, when the sun sinks down, For the shades and the seas are deep, And the track lies far from the drowsy town, Where the step was light, and the hair wa3 brown, So the plough-boy falls a.=leep. Yet, it's oh for the dream of a digger camp, With its wild-wood logs agleam, With youth and a mate of the fearless stamp To seek for the golden isles, and tiamp, With the seas and the hills between. — J. M. Dunedin, July, 1901.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2471, 24 July 1901, Page 65
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241CAMPING OUT. Otago Witness, Issue 2471, 24 July 1901, Page 65
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