FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Will Ogilvie

Crossing The Warrego

The river was running a banker in flood they day that we mustered the Irrara Plain, and a hundred good horses, all beauty and blood,

train, hurricane, pride, tide, silver

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Will Ogilvie

Linden Lea

Garstin rode on a chestnut colt that bucked to beat the band, but Garstin needed no monkey-holt, for his seat on a horse was grand.

star, sweet, restlessly, handsome, whirl, bolt

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Will Ogilvie

The 'Ninety Flood

Who can remember the 'Ninety Flood when the Darling King came down, riding the bends, and out for blood, on his bridleless horse of brown; When close on his heels

sheep, helpless, torrent, dream

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Will Ogilvie

How The Fire Queen Crossed The Swamp

The flood was down in the Wilga swamps, three feet over the mud, and the teamsters camped on the Wilga range and swore at the rising flood;

mails, struggle, spoonbill, softly, westward, hoofs

Saddle For A Throne

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Will Ogilvie

Willanjie

We were travelling down the Bogan, where the scrubs are deep and dense with a thousand head of Tyson's from the Queensland border fence-

watercourse, wires, thunder, horn, guide, trust

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Will Ogilvie

Off The Grass

They were boasting on the Greenhie of their nags of fancy breed, and stuffing them with bran and oats to run in Gumleaf Town,

horseflesh, lion, overweight, journey, honour

Saddle For A Throne

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Will Ogilvie

How The Chestnut Horse Came Home

Twenty miles across the ranges there's a patch of cane-grass clears half-a-mile of tangled mulga; hides a score of native spears, while the horseman sings a love-song,

dead, note, doom, buggy, sunset, feet, game

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Will Ogilvie

The Outlaw

Our realm was the fenceless ranges. We fed in the bluegrass swamps. The green of the branching wilga was the roof of our noonday camps. We drank at the pools in the lignum,

danger, weak, blood, pride,rider, afraid, awake, bitter, strength

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Will Ogilvie

Rainbow In The Yard

There came a knock at Greyson's door one stormy winter night, and Greyson flung the bolts across and peered into the gloom; A woman, drenched and shivering,

nags, dawn, vain, God, fate

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Will Ogilvie

The Team Bullock

The sunrays scorched like furnace fires; The sagging wool-bales dipped and swung; The sand poured off the four-inch tyres; The dust upon the float-rails clung.

sandhills, fortune, hide, skeleton, fate, fear, snake

Saddle For A Throne

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Will Ogilvie

The Pack Horse

My hoofs were hid by the dew-wet clover, the tops of the blue-grass touched my girth, from the river-timber a wind came over, sweet with the scents of the warm, wet earth-

dust, heat, spider, rider, weather, cry, dead

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Will Ogilvie

A White Man

There was a man on the Western side with a heart as big as his lands were wide; For his squatter friends he had open door, and a helping hand for the weak and poor;

hill, rest, dead, soul, friend

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Will Ogilvie

Where The Brumbies Come To Water

There's a lonely grave half-hidden where the blue-grass droops above, and the slab is rough that marks it, but we planted it for love;

hopes, greenhide, comrade, hate, moon