Stanzas

by Henry Kendall

The Poems of Henry Kendall (1920)
Vol. I - Poems and Songs

THE sunsets fall and the sunsets fade,

But still I walk this shadowy land;

And grapple the dark and only the dark

In my search for a loving hand.

For it's here a still, deep woodland lies,

With spurs of pine and sheaves of fern;

But I wander wild, and wail like a child

For a face that will never return!

And it's here a mighty water flows,

With drifts of wind and wimpled waves;

But the darling head of a dear one dead

Is hidden beneath its caves.

Robert Hoddle Dec. 1845 near Source of Yarra Yarra River Starvation Creek (1860)

Henry Short

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