The Poems of Henry Kendall - With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall
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And we'll send forth a hearty halloo,
As we gather them all to be in at the fall -- At the death of the wild Kangaroo! As we gather them all To be in at the fall -- At the death of the wild Kangaroo! -- * The Kangaroo. -- Clari Too cold, O my brother, too cold for my wife Is the Beauty you showed me this morning: Nor yet have I found the sweet dream of my life, And good-bye to the sneering and scorning. Would you have me cast down in the dark of her frown, Like others who bend at her shrine; And would barter their souls for a statue-like face, And a heart that can never be mine? That can never be theirs nor mine. Go after her, look at her, kneel at her feet, And mimic the lover romantic; |
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