FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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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

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

Out Of The Chains

He has toiled in his place since the break of day, and the collar has left its gall; When others were faint in the holding clay and heavy the burden

pains, heat, desire, eager, smart, summer, prince, tone

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

The Station Brand

Ho! you in the boots and the long-necked spurs, you've a nice little hackney there! I rather fancy that brand of hers- now, what will you take for the mate?

exchange, waste, blood, witch, charms, campers

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

A Draft From Tringadee

Lead me down to the stockyard, Jim, to the butt of the old box-treee! I would like to be there when they're yarding the bullocks from Tringadee.

scrubbers, blind man, angry, God, fear

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

His Epitaph

On a little old bush-racecourse at the back of No Man's Land, where the mulgas mark the furlongs and a dead log marks the stand,

blame, danger, win, cheer, struggle

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

How We Won The Ribbon

Come and look around my office- floors are littered, walls are hung with the treasures and the trophies of the days when I was young;

idle, ribbon, glow, beauty, desire, spurs

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

Will Ogilvie

The Last Muster

All day we had driven the starving sheep to the scrub where the axes ply, and the weakest had lagged upon weary feet and dropped from the ranks to die;

shame, lagoon, god, beasts, saddle, greed, bullock, heaven

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Will Ogilvie

The Pearl Of Them All

Gaily in front of the stockwhip the horses come galloping home, leaping and bucking and playing with sides all a lather of foam; But painfully,

paddock, spirit, comrade, promise

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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Will Ogilvie

The Morning Gallop

The dews upon the grasses lie in drops of silver sheen, the grey dawn wraps the Eastern sky with crimson bars between;

tears, glow, gear, spurs, hopeful, dreams

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

105

Will Ogilvie

Swagmen

Through the dust of scorn and sorrow and self-pity, through the drought of disappointment and regret, we have borne our bitter burdens from the city

God, deathless, portion, tongue, fate

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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Will Ogilvie

The Road To Adelaide

The Coorong lay beside us as placid as a pong; The horse ran before us, and who so gay as we, with mallee to the right of us, a desert waste beyond,

token, unbroken, battle, prime, pretty, cheerful, smile

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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Will Ogilvie

The Bend O' The Creek

Here is roaring flood in Winter when the storm-flag flies, and the quick-fire lightnings splinter gold from night-black skies. And the rain-clouds

flood, winter, ocean, bride, scream, raiment, sing

Saddle For A Throne

FC 11 O-13

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Will Ogilvie

The March Of The Flood

There's a whisper away on the Queensland side of the Barwon a banker, the Warrego wide spread from range to red range;

thunder, dayight, past, camp, rain, death