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Earth's Voices

Transcripts from Nature, Sospitra, and Other Poems. By William Sharp
  
  
  
  

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THE MURRAY.

Through Austral plains my waters flow,
Through gum-tree forests deep;
And silently I grow and grow
Until at last I sweep
A thousand miles through plain and wood,
Then turn my face to where
I hear the thundering tidal flood
Boom through the air.