The Archive · 1925

THE SHEARERS

A through, the lone, hots aunmer, Sad backs "bent, with fou 5 thick Mleoced ath the through the love the 9 sheep fac That they He white ai a Banana po Sometimes a lamb, in sudden fromaiee ight, the practised gran iting blades, which alin ung skin.

Then carses mingle with the fowing The theater straightens up his aching ood, To shou: who runs, a dab Of disinfectant on the gaping wound Another oath, and the bewildered late Bema he ae into the crowded. Were the sheared sheep walt in hud: So, jerking ti the force ann slowly died groups.

Then the' days dose, the noisy engine From the dank sheds the sweating men forth, fellows, slow of War With those who'd tramped with Death for four long years. nal"Eae sent sbnmee ight creeps Behind the distant ill, across the And? from the paddocks tying quiet The "ceaseless, gentle bleating of the Cometike the murmur of a tarot while saeiy calls the tonely bitter of the swamp, And. overalls the young moon sas <M. Hasctrox ace, in "Sydney Morning Herald."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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