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David McKee Wright Poems
- Hector He strode across the schoolroom in July, Great ...
- Amelia Jane In the lands away beyond the sea, where Khan and ...
- Shearing's Coming There's a sound of many voices in the camp ...
- In The Moonlight The moon is bright, and the winds are laid, ...
- An Old Colonist's Reverie Dustily over the highway pipes the ...
- Old Mates I came up to-night to the station, the tramp had ...
- Madam, Withouten Many Words Madam, withouten many words Once...
David McKee Wright was an Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia.
Early Life
Wright was born in the town of Ballynaskeagh, County Down, Ireland, on 6 August 1869, the second son of William Wright, a Presbyterian missionary, and his wife, Annie McKee. His mother remained only briefly in Ireland following his birth and he was cared for by his grandmother, Rebecca McKee, until his parents returned from missionary work in Syria. Annie Wright died in 1877, shortly after the family had moved to London.
David was educated at the Glascar School, Ballynaskeagh, then at Pope's School, London, and the engineering section of the Crystal ... more »
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Shearing's Coming
There's a sound of many voices in the camp and on the track,
And letters coming up in shoals to stations at the back;
And every boat that crosses from the sunny 'other side'
Is bringing waves of shearers for the swelling of the tide.
For the shearing's coming round, boys, the shearing's coming round,
And the stations of the mountains have begun to hear the sound.
They'll be talking up at Laghmor of the tallies that were shore,
And the man who broke the record is remembered at Benmore;
And the yarns of strikes and barneys will be told till all is blue,
And the...
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