From the hollow trees in their native home
them old fellows cut the honeycomb.
On honey and little white grubs they fed,
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Over the plains of the whitening grass
and the stunted mulga the drovers pass,
and in the red dust cloud, each side
of the cattle, the native stockmen ride.
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I was clearing thirty or forty acres once
Out in the western range near Nightcap Mountain.
And as I was working, I heard a gathering of the crows
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White birds, frightened from silver grass,
whose blood-rose breasts and wings are thrown
like petals settling down the pass,
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