PR 6009 E78b LS AND BEES VERSES By LOUIS ESSON MELBOURNE : THOMAS C. LOTHIAN THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES BELLS AND BEES NOTE Most of the following verses first ap- peared in the Bulletin, Others appeared in The Lone Hand ; and one piece was printed in The Heart of the Rose. L. E. BELLS AND BEES VERSES BY LOUIS ESSON MELBOURNE THOMAS C. LOTHIAN 1910 PRINTED IN ENGLAND FIRST EDITION DECEMBER 1910. Printed by Butler and Tanner, Frome and London i /- To Aunt Esther 1415851 CONTENTS BUSH IMPRESSIONS THE SPLITTER THE SHEARER'S WIFE GOLDEN GULLY THE OLD BLACK BILLY AN' ME SPRING CATTLE THE MOTHER. SUNSET TRACK WILD BEES A CAMEL DRIVER WHALIN' UP THE LACHLAN CRADLE SONG FANTASIES THE KOOKABURRA SILENUS TO A YOUNG SATYR AN ASSYRIAN CAST EVENING HYMN TO KRISHNA THE TRAVAIL OF NATURE A SPRING MORNING MAGPIES THE FISHER BROGAN'S LANE NOMAD CHANT Bush Impressions THE SPLITTER BACK in the bush Unbroken, the splitter Hews stroke on stark stroke Thro' blackbutts and blue gums. Man, the Destroyer ! Man, Master-Builder ! The axe flashes. Savage blows shatter The dawn world enchanted. The axe sings. Cradles rock, New generations Build cities whose spires Seek stars of the future. Each stroke of the axe Unleashes fresh forces, Drives multitudes marching Onward, aye, whither ? Prophetic, the splitter Grows large in the sunrise, Like Adam, the First Man. THE SHEARER'S WIFE BEFORE the glare o' dawn I rise To milk the sleepy cows, an' shake The droving dust from tired eyes. I set the rabbit traps, then bake The children's bread. There's hay to stook, an' beans to hoe, Ferns to cut i' th' scrub below ; Women must work, when men must go Shearing from shed to shed. I patch an' darn, now evening comes, An' tired I am with labour sore, Tired o' the bush, the cows, the gums, Tired, but must dree for long months more What no tongue tells. The moon is lonely in the sky, The bush is lonely, an' lonely I Stare down the track no horse draws nigh An' start . . at the cattle bells. GOLDEN GULLY ONE gleaming sheet the town of tents Across the gully spread. With axe and pick the ranges rang, Wild earth was torn and bled. From far strange lands the diggers swarmed, Chinese and Yanks and Poles, To seek their fortune, and all flags Flew o'er the lucky holes. We pegged in claims, and gold was crushed As we heard the cradles sway ; We shook our dish till set o' sun We drank till break o' day. The Roaring Days are memories, Good times will never last ; Green saplings thicken, and the grass Trails o'er the golden past. Holes lie agape ; and far and wide Old mates are blown like chaff ; While perched on rotting poppet-head The kookaburras laugh. THE OLD BLACK BILLY AN' ME THE sheep are yarded, an' I sit Beside the fire an' poke at it. Far from talk an' booze o' men Glad, I'm glad I'm back agen On the station, wi' me traps An' fencin' wire, an' tanks an' taps, Back to salt-bush plains, an' flocks, An' old bark hut be th' apple-box. I turn the slipjack, make the tea, All's as still as still can be An' the old black billy winks at me. SPRING CATTLE WITH bells the bush tinkles, Men shout, hard hoofs rattle. Spring sharpens the nostrils Of winter-wild cattle. (O the Spring-quickened earth Warm breaths, and birds' caw-caws ; And sunshine that splashes Snow streaked on the Baw-Baws !) For wild oats they foraged, Turned out till the seed-time In the blanket-wood scrub, Waiting milk-time and feed-time. Now back to the bails Over creeks and round cutting, Proud mothers bring calves All roaring and butting. And shouts, and bells clanging Break louder and clearer Down bush tracks to Neerim ; And bells clatter nearer, Till roads ring and rattle As home the mob passes To the milk-pails, warm sheds, And the sweet springing grasses. B THE MOTHER THE late Spring blooms. The teeming earth Yields fruits and flowers on hill and plain. Along the myrtle track I wait To watch the drovers pass again. Love, once he said, made all things grow As innocent as sun and rain. The season's ripe. And rain and sun Like wedded wife and husband came. The fruit hangs heavy on the tree, And rich increase the creatures claim. But baby, baby, at my breast Your birth alone brings sin and shame. SUNSET-TRACK I HATE cramped streets and factory smoke In towns where man but buys and sells, The piston's thud, the engine's croak, And sweated labor's heavy stroke That beats to clang of clocks and bells. We scorn to work by wage and shift, Like thistledown we drift and drift. Drought there is, and fever is there, Parched throats, wild eyes, and scraggy hair ; But there's liquor to drown the dust and care. His aches and woes a man can forget, His dreams look small in the big sunset ; And a man may rise, or a man may fall, But these silent sands have room for us all. The weird grey mulga calls me back To leave my bones on Sunset-Track. WILD BEES AT peep o' dawn, when the world is still, Hear the magpies calling ! We leave our hut upon the hill, Hear the magpies calling ! The soil's unbroken by the plough From gully deeps to ranges' brow ; Primeval peace enfolds us now, Hear the magpies calling ! We wander, in the morning's hush, Hear the magpies calling ! Thro' flowery tracks and golden bush, Hear the magpies calling ! The yellow box is blossoming, Round the blossoms greedy parrots cling, And reiving bees are on the wing, Hear the magpies catting! Yon dip, like a reed, in the Cherry Pool, Hear the magpies calling ! Your body is bronzed and beautiful, Hear the magpies calling ! The wind breathes manna-dew and honey, And rich we are without mint o' money With love unhived, and wild, and sunny, Hear the magpies calling ! A CAMEL DRIVER WHERE the Never Never Sands of Fate unroll Phantom lake and river, Mirage of the soul, There a camel driver gropes in vain endeavour. Mecca-ward he sets Swart face, travel smeared, Gripping amulets. By the Prophet's Beard ! Golden mosques are lifting sapphire minarets. (No more willy-willies Flee the mad monsoon ; And no more red lilies Flush the lone lagoon. Water-bags are empty, and the desert still is.) Hark ! the bulbul sings From the pepul tree Of enchanted things When the soul breaks free. Black tents, desert driven, fold their weary wings. There strut peacocks bright, Roses shed perfume ; Marble steps, snow white, Lead to bowers of bloom. O Imtiaz Mahal, Garden of Delight ! And his hot eyes trace 'Neath green tamarisks, Like gazelles for grace, Unveiled odalisques. Sweet rose-water fountains spray his burning face. Allah judges best. Holy wells and palms Soothe and shade the Blest. Pains are mixed with balms : In the desert, fountains ; after travel, rest. In the Never Never Dervish-dancing sands, Lord of Fate, forever Freed from fleshly bands Soul released, an Afghan leaves the world's endeavour. WHALIN' UP THE LACHLAN A LANDOWNER'S SONG I'VE eaten bitter bread In sweat wrung from my brow ; And earth-bent, hunger-gripped Scarred hands on axe and plough. Now, when the sun is shining, With swag slung on my back, I laugh at soured selectors When I pass down the track. Whalin' up the Lachlan By the waters grey, Whalin' up the Lachlan All a summer's day, We'll drop a line to tickle The black fish and the cod, Whalin' up the Lachlan Beside a lazy rod. Some choose to crack the greenhide, And some to sow and reap, And some to pink with B-bows A-shearin' greasy sheep. But some there are, sundowners, Who take the easy way, Nor think of lean to-morrow If they fare fat to-day. Whalin' up the Lachlan, Done with axe and plough, Whalin' up the Lachlan, The billy's boilin' now. We'll fill our pipes, an' yarn there, And watch the world roll by, Whalin' up the Lachlan Under a starry sky. CRADLE SONG BABY, O baby, fain you are for bed, Magpie to mopoke busy as the bee ; The little red calf's in the snug cow-shed, An' the little brown bird's in the tree. Daddy's gone a-shearin', down the Castlereagh, So we're all alone now, only you an' me. All among the wool-0, keep your wide blades full-0 ! Daddy loves his baby, parted tho' he be. Baby, my baby, rest your drowsy head, The one man that works here, tired you must be. The little red calf's in the snug cow-shed, An' the little brown bird's in the tree. Fantasies THE KOOKABURRA WHEN Time first opened her dim eyelids Before the Age of Joy, Before the Sphinx or the Pyramids, Before the Siege of Troy, And before the Alcheringa sighed, In Australia desolate The kookaburra, agog, descried The tangled threads of Fate. Scornful he glowered at the strange first dawn, At the strange first stars he scoffed ; And he laughed, when the Veil of Life was drawn On his bough i' th' blue aloft. At Man and Evil and Destiny Loud pealed his mocking laughter, Because high perched on his gaunt gum-tree He peered before and after. 4 Tho' world on wonder world is shuffled Thro' fingers of Fate forever, Unmoved he squats, this wise unruffled Droll bird of the Never Never. And moons and moons slip between each rime, But perched on the same gum-tree, He is waiting to laugh at the death of Time, To mock Eternity. SILENUS TO A YOUNG SATYR (Suggested by a Picture of Botticelli) FIRST, you will tread ripe grapes which bursting gleam And bubble, oozing in pale purple stream. Huge flagons you will quaff, wanton, carouse, But nothing lose save sorrow ; you will drowse In amorous nook, and dream, tasting divine Indolence, sleepy with the fumes of wine. Then you will be a hunter, keen to snare Squirrel and deer, brown nymph in lilied lair, And twitch a maenad's robe where graces glow Like cherries peeping from a nest of Snow. The flute you'll play, and make mad cymbals' din, Leap, riot, and dance, till stars no more can spin, For you will follow Bacchus ever young Aegean Isles and Indian Vales among, And goat-hooved, twain-horned Pan ; in wanderings You'll learn the causes and the trend of things. Sturdy and joyous, earth-born, but no smart Of mortal pain can pierce your gladsome heart. Snub-nosed, tub-bellied, goat-like eared, with small Stiff tail and bristly hair, though Hesiod call Us ugly, good for nothing, poets know We cracked the nuts of knowledge long ago, And old Silenus, spite red bleary eyes, Knows more of wisdom than the seeming wise. Head over heels you tumble, just like that I romped with Gods and Men ere I grew fat. Bring wine, a gushing horn of wine, your master Loves quick-wit youth ; run fast, you rogue, fast . . . faster ! London. AN ASSYRIAN CAST A VASE, a verse, a plaster cast Preserves an empire of the past. The palace falls ; a graven stone Rebuilds the walls of Babylon. A winged bull-god's mystery Enwraps the might of Nineveh. An epigram embalms, I wis, Sennacherib, Semiramis. EVENING HYMN TO KRISHNA CALL on the Lord ! Cows leave the byre And milk pails foam. The sunset's fire Kindles the gopis' wild desire To feel they kiss, and thrum Cymbals, and clash their bracelets bright, Breaking the still air of the night With lilting lyrics of delight, Lord of the Milkmaids, come ! Come as of old, a laughing boy To steal the butter or destroy Demons ! Now moinas shriek for joy, The monkeys play and prance. Cows call ; our sleek calves moo for thee, Krishna ! Round thy Kadumbra tree Maids, sick for love, are circling free In mazy rasa dance. Call on the Lord ! In shouting bands By Jumna stream we lift our hands. May clouds rain flowers on the lands Where once thy feet have trod ! Thy brides are yearning. Frolicsome, Dancing, with beating on the drum, And milkmaid songs, Shri Krishna ! come To flute gay souls to God. Jaipur. THE TRAVAIL OF NATURE THE thunder storm's drums and trumpets, the champing of surging seas, The rustle of reeds at twilight, the sobbing plaint of the rain, Wild winds that shriek in the heart o' the bush, the falling of mighty trees, Cry to me, out of the darkness, a lament of life's unrest and pain. All things that live, and are beaten and broken, pant with desire For a dream-isle girdled by seas beyond the suns of the West, Far from the lightning of change, from seasons of flood and fire, And the woeful travail of Nature where the winds o' the world will have rest. A SPRING MORNING THE sky is blue and sunny, Busy the wild bee thrums, Now manna-dew and honey Spill o'er from old red gums. The bush gleams fresh and dewy To lure her stragglers back ; A greybeard, humping bluey, Goes whistling down the track. From school brown children flocking' Rob many a woolly nest ; And the mother croons, a-rocking Her baby at the breast. To earth grown old and crabby With lilt of youth comes Spring, With bloom and bud and baby, Each tender wistful thing. She smoothes out Winter's wrinkles ; And from her charmed horn With fiery dew she sprinkles The Resurrection Morn. MAGPIES I HEAR the cry of the magpies joyously gushing Over the morning, The carolling slogan of magpies, like a rill rushing, And sorrow scorning. Magpies, fill up my heart with the joy of exultant things Fresh notes adorning ! Breath of the morning primeval your melody brings To thrill my morning. THE FISHER VATEA went fishing (he dwelt afar In the land of Aviki where marvels are.) He baited his hook with the evening star. The star quivered under the waves, and wrought Magical patterns, but tempted naught. No porpoise, no little maniki was caught. Enraged, he baited the hook afresh, (Brown boys, with their nets, more fish could en- mesh.) From his thigh he tore a strip of red flesh, Then dipping his line in the deep blue calms Hooked, A O ! an island, bright with balms, With coral, green parrots, and coco-palms. Tongareva, this lovely prize . Bloomed like a bride in the peoples' eyes. And the God hung his fish-hook across the skies, So, medicine men of the tribe relate, Who would catch fine fish from the Seas of Fate Warm flesh, no vague star, he must pierce for bait. Brogan's Lane BROGAN'S LANE '""["^HERE'S a crack in the city down that sharp A street In couples, and armed, tramp rossers on beat. Like a joss, silhouetted across the pane A Chinese face watches down Brogan's Lane, Brogan's Lane, Brogan's Lane, A reeling moon blinks over Brogan's Lane Flash Fred, when he dives on a red lot, can choose To moscow the swag at a Polaky Jew's. Tho' bled by old Isaac, he needn't complain, Rats pinch from their brothers down Brogan's Lane, Brogan's Lane, Brogan's Lane, The melting pot bubbles in Brogan's Lane. And Jenny, fresh down from the country, goes gay And drives to the races and laughs at the play ; Till one morn, lying out in the cold and the rain, A body is perished in Brogan's Lane. Brogan's Lane, Brogan's Lane, There's only one turn to this long last lane. With opium dens, sly cribs, bones and rags, 'Tis the haunt of thieves, wastrels, poor women and vags. They booze to bring joy, they sin to numb pain, But there'll come a stretch at the end of the lane, Brogan's Lane, Brogan's Lane, The river and morgue shadow Brogan's Lane. Nomad Chant NOMAD CHANT To E. J. BRADY THE Spring wind, brother, With marching music blows. Calling to one another, Children of the Mother, We go where the wind goes. New thoughts prick sharper Than spears at old despair. Who can be a carper ? The wind is a harper Playing a lively air. Thro' hilly lands and hollow, From smoky towns afar, Like our swift sister swallow Untrodden tracks we follow To malacoota bar. We are Gipsy rovers, That since the world began Of trees and waters lovers, Where'er the blue sky covers Drove poaching caravan. We are Arabs, pitching Beneath the desert palm A tent of peace, and stitching Into our dreams bewitching The starry hours of calm. With barbaric handles We shatter custom's domes ; We scrape rude sandals ; Eternal Goths and Vandals We sack world-weary Romes. To fresh adventures blowing We follow the Nomad wind. Clouds, seas, and staVs are flowing, And with the good wind going We leave old worlds behind. Printed by Butler and Tanner, Frome and London A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THOMAS C. LOTHIAN, 100, Flinders Street, MELBOURNE. DECEMBER, 1910. INDEX PAGE ALPHA CENTAURI .......... 6 ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY, THE ELEMENTS OF . . . . . .3 AUSTRALIAN BUILDING ESTIMATOR ....... 14 AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES, A GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF . .10 AUSTRALIAN CRISIS, THE ........ 4 BUSHLAND BALLADS ......... 7 CLARKE'S ELOCUTION INSTRUCTOR 14 DAWNWARD ........... 5 DOMINIONS OF THE BOUNDARY ....... 5 EATING FOR HEALTH ......... 15 EGMONT ........... 13 FEDERAL LIQUOR SERVICE, THE ....... 4 FROM RANGE TO SEA n FROM THE OLD DOG ......... 15 GLIMPSES OF AUSTRALIAN BIRD LIFE ...... 10 HEART OF THE ROSE, THE 13 How TO HANDLE A CUSTOMER ....... n KEY TO THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA ....... 10 KEEYUGA COOKERY BOOK ........ 9 LABORATORY, THE .......... 12 LAMP OF PSYCHE, THE ......... 12 LYRICS IN LEISURE ......... 6 LYRIC MOODS .......... 6 MOODS AND MELODIES ......... 12 MOSQUITOES, THEIR HABITS AND DISTRIBUTION . . . .11 No BREAKFAST ; OR, THE SECRET OF LIFE ..... 4 NUGGET BOOKLETS .......... 8 POEMS BY BERNARD O'Dowo ........ 7 POEMS OF HENRY C. KENDALL ....... 7 POEMS OF WILLIAM GAY 7 POEMS OF LOVE, LIFE AND SENTIMENT . . . . . .12 POETRY MILITANT .......... 5 PRACTICAL LESSONS IN HYPNOTISM 14 QUINTON'S ROUSEABOUT, AND OTHER STORIES . . . . .14 ROSEMARY, THAT'S FOR REMEMBRANCE . . . . . .13 SEA AND SKY 13 SEA SPRAY AND SMOKE DRIFT . . . . . . . . 6, 7 SEVEN DEADLY SINS, THE ........ 5 SILENT LAND, THE ......... 5 THINGS WORTH THINKING ABOUT ....... 13 USEFUL BIRDS OF SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA . ..... 10 VICTORIAN HILL AND DALE n WAYS OF MANY WATERS, THE ....... 12 WISDOM AND SUCCESS IN ADVERTISING ...... 15 A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THOMAS C. LOTHIAN, 100, Flinders Street, MELBOURNE. THE ELEMENTS OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY. By W. A. OSBORNE, M.B., D.Sc., Professor of Physiology in the Univer- sity, Melbourne. 152 pages, 64 illustrations. Price 6s. ; postage, 4d. 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