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We passed from the Nullarbor Plain the Second night out from Adelaide, and by breaklast-time the next morning we were once more amongst the mulga and mallee and black ...
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I think some artist, rising ere the night Had drawn nor vell from off the water's face Ascended from the Bay to some high place Where dawn's first smile could greet his eager ...
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The Bishop of Birmingham, preaching in his own cathedral, has launched what is described as "an amazing attack" on St. Francis of Assisi. The latter's seventh centenary, he ...
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Salvarsan may have a rival in polonium, the radioactive element isolated by Madame Curlie, which is now being tried out in treatment of syphilis. ...
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Outside the population problem, nothing is of more serious import to Australia than its prickly pear pest. The "Chico," or Arizona cochineal insect, so far as Queensland ...
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Oh, such fun. to-day I'm seven. Daddy said "Good morning, Kevin, Happy birthday. Come and look, The fairies left a great big book. ...
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When little birds in the trees are singing, Or after elusive gants go winging, The mopoke sits with his head in his wing, And mopes and mopes, the nasty old thing. ...
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Moonlight falling on the pond Makes a shining sky; In the water-world beyond Woolly cloudlets fly. ...
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It was a very hot morning, and the first day of little Betty's holidays from school; so she selected her favourite dolly and book, and started off to the swing, which was un ...
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It will come as a great surprise to all lovers of poetry to learn that the old Persian philosopher and poet, Omar Khayyam, spent years in wandering in the "unhappy valley ...
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Dawn came down the star-strown way, ln mask and domino of grey; A most demure and Quaker day— Cold, unbeguiling. ...
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The present place of Australia, in a backwater of the stream of art, is settled by Inevitable facts of geography and history. We are too far from Europe to comprehend ...
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Long years ago my son came to me to gladden my heart, to give me the greatest loy, and at times the greatest sorrow of my life. What a little follow he was, and how ...
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NORTH AUSTRALIA.
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The sun sinks down behind a rosy sky, A figure moves alone on yonder hill, With wenry steps and oft-repeated sign; But strong in heart, and with determined ...
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