THE DROVER’S RETURN.
His old marc goes with an easy swing, A buoyant strength in her homeward stride (Ho has not much of a cheque to bring). She ia Dan the stalwart drover's pride. She was bred out back where he learned to ride. Tho snow of ihe mountains is white before him. The glint of fern and the frosted flax, — A sense of their grandeur is stealing o'er him As the strong mare turns to the mountain tracks — Out there for years she has followed the packs. At tho touch of the spur she rises Teadily, Blowing her breath as a cylander blows. At the three-mile rise she takes it steadily. Down tho valley the sinuous torrent flows. To the left arc the sable pines and the snows. His heart is light and his fancy takes him Back to the lime-) of his- youthful pride. His cantering . mare on the saddle-tree shakes him. It was she bore homeward his winsome bride; In thoso days Mary knew how to ride. The mist, arisen from bush and river Its splendour lit by the rising sun. His heart goes out to the great All-giver— Thank God for home and a journey dona, And yonder, awaiting him, wife and son. —Charles Oscar Paxkzr.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2947, 7 September 1910, Page 88
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210THE DROVER’S RETURN. Otago Witness, Issue 2947, 7 September 1910, Page 88
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