Harry 'breaker' Harbord Morant Light Poems

• 1. West By North Again
  We've drunk our wine, we've kissed our girls, and funds are sinking low,
  The horses must be thinking it's a fair thing now to go;
  Sling the swags on Condamine and strap the billies fast,
  And stuff a bottle in the bags and let's be off at last.
  ...
• 2. Too Much Light
  It was a mighty snug resort, that Sydney-side hotel:
  A snug resort where fellows dined 'not wisely, but too well';
  The boarders all had gone to bed, and other men departed,
  When Pat suggested to his pal 'twas nearly time they started.
  ...
• 3. When The Light Is As Darkness
  The morning-tide is fair and bright,
  With golden sun up-springing;
  The cedars glowed in the new-born light,
  And the bell-bird's note was ringing;
  ...
• 4. To A Silent Girl
  When the sklll'd fashioner of female faces
  Designed your mask, he wrought with cunning fist,
  And made a mouth expressly to be kiss'd -
  Not for shrill utterance nor pert grimaces.
  ...
• 5. His Masterpiece
  Never before was daughter of Eve endow'd with a face so fair,
  There be none of God's holy angels with a beauty half so rare
  As thine, nor dreamer has ever dreamed the loveliness you wear.
  There's a gleam in your golden tress, Lieb! a light in your melting eye!
  ...
• 6. Who's Riding Old Harlequin Now?
  They are mustering cattle on Brigalow Vale
  Where the stock-horses whinny and stamp,
  And where long Andy Ferguson, you may go bail,
  Is yet boss on a cutting-out camp.
  ...
• 7. Summer Midnight
  Athwart the star-lit midnight sky
  Luminous fleecy clouds drift by,
  As the mysterious, pallid moon
  Sinks in the waveless still lagoon.
  ...

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