FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Saddle For A Throne
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Will Ogilvie
Abandoned Selections
On the crimson breast of the sunset the grey selections lie, and their lonely, grief-stained faces are turned to a pitiless sky;
pity, moon, oak, sorrow, homesteads
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Will Ogilvie
Northward To The Sheds
There's a whisper from the regions out beyond the Barwon banks; There's a gathering of the legions and a forming of the ranks;
glasses, sweethearts, sing, earth, horse, river
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Will Ogilvie
The Mulga Mail
Here no swift hoofs strike the gravel here no golden head-lights glow, there are ways for news travel other than by Cobb & Co.
whaler, distressed, camper, creek, watercourse
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Will Ogilvie
The Maker Of Empire
A patient, honest, kindly friend the packhorse plodded down the years, content his humble life to spend in toil to aid the pioneers. Before the swagman and his load,
retires, bells, seldom, overlander
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Will Ogilvie
Life's Overland
Grey-lying miles to the nor'ward of Nor'ward Red-leaping leagues to the westward of West, Futher than keenest of sight follows forward,
sins, guard, homeward, strong, blind
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Will Ogilvie
The Horse Teams
The lorries have taken over the tasks of the western roads: the mobs of the overland drover, the wool of the ten-ton loads.
dream, duty, beauty, gold
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Will Ogilvie
A Queen Of Yore
Slowly she hobbles past the town, grown old at heart and grey; With misty eyes she stumbles down along the well-known way;
friend, robber, starve, gold
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Will Ogilvie
The Silent Squadron
Down the long dream-lanes at the dead of night, with grey mists over and mists below, with loose-held reins on their horses white I watch where the silent riders go.
silently, heart, dead, fear, empty
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Will Ogilvie
Hearts Of Gold
Though poets have not yet sung you nor writers your true worth told, I , who have wrought among you, I know you for Hearts of Gold!
pitiless, floods, drought, burn, crop
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Will Ogilvie
Deserted
This is the homestead-the still lagoon kisses the foot of the garden fence, shimmering under a silver moon in a midnight silence, cold and tense;
wilderness, dream, pain, dress
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Will Ogilvie
Life's Ride
When you saddle your horse in Youth's stockyard look well, look well to your gear, for the road you travel is long and hard and its length is fenced with fear.
gods, lies, tales, ancient, rules
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Will Ogilvie
Making Back
As you ride the Lachlan frontage you will meet them on the track making back! With their heads to station grass trotting wide to let you pass,
rivers, gateways, crack, timbers, fate
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Will Ogilvie
The Brumby Stallion
He runs unfettered and idle, the lord of range and plain; He knows not halter or bridle or chink of the hobble-chain; He carries no driver's whip-mark,
pride, star, moon, camp,shy, kingdom
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Will Ogilvie
Atra Cura
Black Care behind the horseman sits, her hand in his the while; Not all the joy of jangling bits can charm her to a smile;
kiss, snow, reckless, sting, greenhide
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Will Ogilvie
The Man Who Steadies The Lead
He was born in the light of red oaths and nursed by the drought and the flood, and swaddled in sweat-lined saddle-cloths and christened in spur-drawn blood;
fool, bridle, star, courage, idle
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Will Ogilvie
The Riding Camel
I was Junda's riding camel. I went in front of the train. I was hung with shells of the Orient, from saddle and cinch and rein.
Junda Khan, darksome, dwell, shade, sandhill, trooper, cruel
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Will Ogilvie
The Riding Of The Rebel
He was the Red Creek overseer, a trusted man and true, whose shoulder never left the wheel when there was work to do;
terror, smile, fear, rebel, free
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Will Ogilvie
The Bush, My Love
The camp-fire gleams resistance to every twinkling star; The horse-bells in the distance are jangling faint and far;
waves, duty, shrine, earth, greet, kiss, forgive
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Will Ogilvie
The Filling Of The Swamps
Hurrah for the storm-clouds sweeping! Hurrah for the driving rain! The dull Earth out of her sleeping is wakened to life again.
swamps, rain, lakes, eagle
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Will Ogilvie
The Bushman's Friend
Let the sailor tell of the roaring gale or the blue waves' rippling laughter, Let the soldier sing of the sabre swing or the laurels of glory after;
dawn, pleasure, faster, river, abeam, beautiful
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Will Ogilvie
Snowy River
Riding maybe to a muster four or five of us in line, up would dash some lagging thruster shouting, "Race you to that pine!"
quiver, stronger, refrain, rein
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Will Ogilvie
Four-In-Hand
O some prefer a single, or double not too free; But let the lead-bars jingle-it's four-in-hand for me; With a level road and a lively load,
bars, dream, tears, slind, pleasure
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Will Ogilvie
Riderless
A broken bridle trailing, a saddler scratched and scarred- and Brown Bee at the railing that rings the station yard; No stockman sits astride her,
home, moonlight, dead, dumb, beast
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Will Ogilvie
In Town
Where the smoke-clouds scarcely drift and the breezes seem to sleep, where the sunbeams never lift half the gloom of alleys deep,
power, joys, stars, pride, life
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Will Ogilvie
A Spin Of The Coin
The Spring is warm and waking, and the wattle's bursting bud; And the longing of the rover makes a fever in the blood;
desert, freedom, bridle, laughter, bid