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An hour before the sun goes down

Behind the ragged boughs

I go across the little run

And bring the dusty cows;

And once I used to sit and rest

Beneath the fading dome

For there was one that I loved best

Who’d bring the cattle home

Our yard is fixed with double bails

Round one the grass is green

The bush is growing through the rails

The spike is rusted in;

And 'twas from there his freckled face

Would turn and smile at me --

He’d milk a dozen in the race

While I was milking three

I milk eleven cows myself

Where once I milked but four;

I set the dishes on the shelf

And close the dairy door;

And when the glaring sunlight fails

And the fire shines through the cracks

I climb the broken stockyard rails

And watch the bridle-tracks

He kissed me twice and once again

And rode across the hill

The pint-pots and the hobble-chain

I hear them jingling still;

He’ll come at night or not at all --

He left in dust and heat

And when the soft, cool shadows fall

Is the best time to meet

And he is coming back again

He wrote to let me know

The floods were in the Darling then --

It seems so long ago;

He’d come through miles of slush and mud

And it was weary work

The creeks were bankers, and the flood

Was forty miles round Bourke

He said the floods had formed a block

The plains could not be crossed

And there was foot-rot in the flock

And hundreds had been lost;

The sheep were falling thick and fast

A hundred miles from town

And when he reached the line at last

He trucked the remnant down

And so he’ll have to stand the cost;

His luck was always bad

Instead of making more, he lost

The money that he had;

And how he’ll manage, heaven knows

(My eyes are getting dim)

He says -- he says -- he don’t -- suppose

I’ll want -- to -- marry -- him

As if I wouldn’t take his hand

Without a golden glove --

Oh! Jack, you men won’t understand

How much a girl can love

I long to see his face once more --

Jack’s dog! thank God, it’s Jack! --

(I never thought I’d faint before)

He’s coming -- up -- the track

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