FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

Bells Along Macqarie

When the summer days grow long and the grass is turning brown, South and Eastward with a song come the shearers riding down;

friends, love, discover, gay, roam

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

White In The Eye

You don't like that lift of his quarter, you don't like that white in his eye; You've been told he's a regular snorter and throws himselft into the sky.

doubt, safe, good luck, senses, boots, beggar

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

At The Back O' Bourke!

Where the mulga paddocks are wild and wide, that's where the pick of the stockmen ride- At the Back o' Bourke! Under the dust-clouds dense and brown,

wasted life, light, bright, train, nurse

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

Black Wings

Sextons of the Overland! Buriers of the dead, where graves are lone and shallow and winding sheets are red! Wardens of the waggon track,

lagoon, death, pioneer, scrubs, beast

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

Starry Camp

When the cool night-winds are blowing and the foot-sore mob's at rest, and the camp-fire logs are glowing like a sunset in the west;

friends, camp, dead, fire, lamp, twinkle

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

The Bush Fire

The sun has signed his nightly armistice, drawn a dark cloud across his crimson breast, and gone to war with other lands than this, lowering his splendid banners from the west.

stars, glow, tank, nightmare

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

Unbroken!

Eyes wild with fear unspoken, tossed manes and sweeping tails, our thirty head unbroken are safe behind the rails;

blossom, leader,scatter, chestnut

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

The Picnic Races

O, to be young and nine-stone-seven and riding in Picnic Races! That was as near as we got to Heaven long since in the old bush places.

hack, desire, ghost, breed, good bye, smile, cloudless sky

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

Solitude

As we drove one day through the lignum swamp where the spelling horses ran, a loose horse broke from the noonday camp and trotted beside our van.

beauty, absent, heart, trace

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

The Coach Of Death

There's a phantom-choach runs nightly along the Western creeks; Her four black steeds step lightly, her driver never speaks;

passengers, creeks, flood, marshall

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

Outlaws Both

steady! steady, my pearl! from the crest of the range one last look behind us: the roofs of the town are lit with red fires that quiver and change

township, guard, honour, moon, lagoon, sea

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

The Dingo Of Brigalow Gap

For K.G. or coronet, kingdom or crown, the boys on Kalangada care not a rap; But the honour they ask for is galloping down the red-and-white dingo of Brigalow Gap.

trap, confess, extinct, joys, sickness

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

The Near-Side Leader

When the gear is on the horses and the knotted trace-chains hooked; When the last bale's on the waggon and the ropes are twitched and tied;

team, weight, journey, free, camp, battle