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Walking The Weaners

by Dennis Scanlon

The morning dew was washing the dust from “desert” days,
when the fierce, hot wind parched skin to tinder dry
and the Stockman’s lips were cracked beneath the sunscreen he’d
applied,
in an effort to control the burning sky.
The camp Cook called for breakfast, with a signal loud and clear
that would wake the soundest sleeper from the swag,
and from over near the campfire, came the muffled sound of “curse”
as another dream was shattered in the bag. Artists, Clubs, Festivals, Musicians and the

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and shake the muddy water from their flank.
That night around the campfire, the young Headstockman told
how his father, years before had lived and died,
in similar surroundings, along a cattle track:
The young man held his memr’y with great pride.

The trees of “Dalgonally,” were a welcome sight indeed
after four long weeks of working with the mob:
A team of young Australians had brought the cattle home
and once again succeeded at the job.
You can wander ‘round this country, on any outback track
and find the spirit strong within our race :
It’s the spirit of Australia – the fighting will to win
the courage and the mateship make this place.
A land where all have settled: from Dreamtime to this day.
To live and die together – to strive at work and play.
From very different backgrounds, with very different ways,
but one and all Australians, ‘till the twighlight of our days.
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