John Shaw Neilson Long Poems

• 1. May
  Shyly the silver-hatted mushrooms make
  Soft entrance through,
  And undelivered lovers, half awake,
  Hear noises in the dew
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• 2. O Heart Of Spring
  O HEART of Spring!
  Spirit of light and love and joyous day,
  So soon to faint beneath the fiery Summer:
  Still smiles the Earth, eager for thee alway:
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• 3. Schoolgirls Hastening
  Fear it has faded and the night:
  The bells all peal the hour of nine:
  The schoolgirls hastening through the light
  Touch the unknowable Divine.
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• 4. The Poor Can Feed The Birds
  Ragged, unheeded, stooping, meanly shod,
  The poor pass to the pond: not far away
  The spires go up to God.
  
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• 5. The Land Where I Was Born
  HAVE you ever been down to my countree
  Where the trees are green and tall?
  The days are long and the heavens are high,
  But the people there are small.
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• 6. The Poor, Poor Country
  Oh 'twas a poor country, in Autumn it was bare,
  The only green was the cutting grass and the sheep found little there.
  Oh, the thin wheat and the brown oats were never two foot high,
  But down in the poor country no pauper was I.
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• 7. In The Dim Counties
  In the dim counties
  we take the long calm
  Lilting no haziness,
  sequel or psalm.
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• 8. The Gentle Water Bird (for Mary Gilmore)
  In the far days, when every day was long,
  Fear was upon me and the fear was strong,
  Ere I had learned the recompense of song.
  
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• 9. Old Granny Sullivan
  A pleasant shady place it is, a pleasant place and cool -
  The township folk go up and down, the children pass to school.
  Along the river lies my world, a dear sweet world to me:
  I sit and learn - I cannot go; there is so much to see.
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