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A collection of poetry about the mysteries of the desert and its strange and "mystic" spirit.
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Dedication: Dedicated to My Truest Friend - My Wife. p.v
Epigraph: Breath of the hot wind stealing nigh, / The voice of the desert is in your sigh. / Plain and sandhill and mulga tall - / The voice of the desert speaks in you all. / Grim is the voice of the desert - aye, /
In the silent night, in the cloudless day; / And the tales it tells are but tales of woe, / As the summers come and the summers go.
Contents
* Contents derived from the London,
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Western Europe,Europe,:Elliot Stock,1905 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
In the Deserti"A cloudless sky o'erhead, and all around",Dramingo,
single work poetry
A poem about the timelessness and the otherworldliness of the Australian outback, tinged with a sense of dread
A poem set in the wilderness, wherein the Devil and Death are entities in the poem, just off-stage awaiting the narrator. It describes voices and bright eyes disturbing his sleep and implies that what is coming for him is a consequence of his greed.
