Clancy of the Overflow

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Australian Bush Poet “Clancy of The Overflow”

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I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better

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Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,

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He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,

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Just `on spec', addressed as follows, `Clancy, of The Overflow'.

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And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,

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(And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar)

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'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:

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`Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.'

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In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy

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Gone a-droving `down the Cooper' where the Western drovers go;

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As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing

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For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.

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And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him

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In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,

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And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,

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And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars.

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I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy

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Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,

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And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city

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Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all

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And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle

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Of the tramways and the 'buses making hurry down the street,

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And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting,

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Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.

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And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me

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As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,

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With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy,

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For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.

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And I somehow rather fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy,

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Like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go,

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While he faced the round eternal of the cash-book and the journal --

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But I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy, of `The Overflow'.

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But I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy, of `The Overflow'.