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phantom in Joe Wilson and His Mates

ve dead, Up-Country and Out- Back : To where *fuath glorious clustered stars The dreamy plains expand — My hovu lies wide a thousand miles In the Never-Never Land It lies beyond the farming belt. Wide wastes of scrub and plain, A blazing desert in the drought, A lake-land after rain ; To the sky-li…

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2,151
Year
1,901
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Internet Archive
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Record ID
2151
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Joe Wilson and His Mates; Henry Lawson
Published
1901
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
phantom
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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ve dead, Up-Country and Out- Back : To where *fuath glorious clustered stars The dreamy plains expand — My hovu lies wide a thousand miles In the Never-Never Land It lies beyond the farming belt. Wide wastes of scrub and plain, A blazing desert in the drought, A lake-land after rain ; To the sky-line sweeps the waving grass. Or whirls the scorching sand — A phantom land, a mystic land I The Never-Never Land i 332 'the never-never country.* Where lone Mount Desolation lies. Mounts Dreadful and Despair — *Tis lost beneath the rainless skies In hopeless deserts there ; It spreads not^-west by No-Man's Land — Where clouds are seldom.

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