...white wreaths pass, Sitting loosely in the saddle all the while. 'Twas merry, 'mid the blackwoods, when we spied the station roofs. To wheel the wild...hoofs : Oh ! the hardest day was never then too hard ! In these hours when life is ebbing, how those days when life was young Come back to us ; . . . Aye...

...the white wreaths pass, Sitting loosely in the saddle all the while. 'Twas merry 'mid the blackwoods, when we spied the station roofs, To wheel the wild...running fire of stockwhips and a fiery run of hoofs; O ! the hardest day was never then too hard ! Aye! we had a glorious gallop after ' Starlight' and...

...Sitting loosely in the saddle all the while. " 'Twas merry 'rnid the foot-hills when we spied the Ramos roofs, To wheel the wild scrub cattle at the yard,...hoofs ; Oh ! the hardest day was never then too hard." In and out amongst the foot-hills we wound and reconnoitred, gathering steers. Where it was found difficult...

...the white wreaths pass, Sitting loosely in the saddle all the while. 'Twas merry 'mid the blackwoods, when we spied the station roofs To wheel the wild scrub cattle at the yard, With a running fire of stock whips and a fiery run of hoofs ; Oh ! the hardest day was never then too hard ! Aye ! we had...

...mustering. Let's see — I forget how it goes — no, it's like this : 'Twas merry 'mid the black-wcods when we spied the station roofs, To wheel the wild...hoofs, Oh, the hardest day was never then too hard I That's how it goes, I think. We used sometimes to remember it -as we rode home, dog-tired. But it...

...dash and the courage remain and men can still say : — "Pis merry 'mid the blackwood, when we spy the station roofs, To wheel the wild scrub cattle...and a fiery run of hoofs — Oh ! the hardest day is never then too hard. The idea of the people seems to be, " Hurrah for the sovereignly of the Queen...

...among the gleaming grass, To wander as we've wandered many a mile, And blow the cool tobacco cloud, and watch the white wreaths pass, Sitting loosely...hoofs ; Oh ! the hardest day was never then too hard I " This passion for a wandering open-air existence, the free untrammelled life of the bush, the prairie,...

...style:— * Stockwhips are now almost everywhere discarded. " 'Twos merry 'mid the blackwoods, when wo spied the station roofs, To wheel the wild scrub cattle...hoofs; Oh ! the hardest day was never then too hard!" In a country like Australia, with vast open tracts of pastoral or cultivated land, the subject offences...

...the white wreaths pass, Sitting loosely in the saddle all the while. 'Twas merry 'mid the blackwoods when we spied the station roofs, To wheel the wild...hoofs ; Oh, the hardest day was never then too hard ! " Then he faces the present — " Let me slumber in the hollow where the wattle blossoms wave, With...

...the white wreaths pass, Sitting loosely in the saddle all the while. 'Twas merry 'mid the blackwoods when we spied the station roofs, To wheel the wild...yard, With a running fire of stock-whips, and a fiery ran of hoofs ; Oh, the hardest day was never then too hard ! " Then he faces the present — " Let...