. Selected poems; . J* I I J*SSj3saS^iagr The Never-Never Land. Y homestead, hut, and railroad, coach, and track—By lonely graves where rest our dead, Up-Country and Out-Back:To where beneath the clustered starsThe dreamy plains expand—]\Iy home lies wide-a thousand milesIn the Ne\er-Never Land. It lies beyond the farming belt. Wide wastes of scrub and plain,A blazing desert in the drought, A lake-land after rain;To the skyline sweeps the waving grass. Or whirls the scorching sand—A phantom land, a mystic realm! The Never-Never Land. Where lone Mount Desolation lies. Mounts Dr

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. Selected poems; . J* I I J*SSj3saS^iagr The Never-Never Land. Y homestead, hut, and railroad, coach, and track—By lonely graves where rest our dead, Up-Country and Out-Back:To where beneath the clustered starsThe dreamy plains expand—]\Iy home lies wide-a thousand milesIn the Ne\er-Never Land. It lies beyond the farming belt. Wide wastes of scrub and plain,A blazing desert in the drought, A lake-land after rain;To the skyline sweeps the waving grass. Or whirls the scorching sand—A phantom land, a mystic realm! The Never-Never Land. Where lone Mount Desolation lies. Mounts Dreadful and Despair,Tis lost beneath the rainless skies In hopeless deserts there;It spreads nor-west by No-Mans-Land- VVhere clouds are seldom seen—To where the cattle-stations lie Three hundred miles between. THE NEVER-NEVER LAND 109 The drovers of the Great Stock Routes The strange Gulf Country know,Where, travelHng for the northern grass, The big lean bullocks go;And camped by night where plains lie wide, Like some old oceans stockmen in th

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