A Summer Christmas and a Sonnet upon The S.S. "Ballaarat." By Douglas B. W. Sladen |
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 | A Summer Christmas and a Sonnet upon The S.S. "Ballaarat." |  |
Kit went to bed, and Phil went out
To walk with rapid stride about,
In hopes of working off his load
Of disappointed love, and strode
Till long past midnight. The next day
Kit packed her ‘traps’ and drove away
Back to her father's place, which lay
Some twenty miles off. Phil went up,
Meaning, for the first time, to stop
Some months upon his Queensland run.
Chesterfield took Maud Morrison
And Ida Lewis back to town,
Hall, Phil Forte's partner, just stayed down
To do some station-business,
Which Phil, who posted off express,
Left pending. Lachlan Smith ere long
Went, for assize-work, to Geelong.
To walk with rapid stride about,
In hopes of working off his load
Of disappointed love, and strode
Till long past midnight. The next day
Kit packed her ‘traps’ and drove away
Back to her father's place, which lay
Some twenty miles off. Phil went up,
Meaning, for the first time, to stop
Some months upon his Queensland run.
Chesterfield took Maud Morrison
And Ida Lewis back to town,
Hall, Phil Forte's partner, just stayed down
To do some station-business,
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Left pending. Lachlan Smith ere long
Went, for assize-work, to Geelong.
| A Summer Christmas and a Sonnet upon The S.S. "Ballaarat." | |