Midnight, musical and splendid, And the Old Year's life is ended, And the New, 'born in the purple,' babe yet crowned, among us dwells; While Creation's welcome swells, Starlight all the heavens pervading,...
'Tis a new thing for Australia that the waters to her bear One who seeks not strength of sunshine, or the breath of healing air; One who reeks not of her riches, nor remembers she is fair;...
The unexplored parts of Australia are sometimes spoken of by the bushmen of Western Queensland as the home of the pelican, a bird whose resting place, so far as the writer knows, is seldom, if ever, found. ...