giant in Old Melbourne Memories
ged thy quiet home! For, close as bees in countless hive, Like emmet hosts that earnest strive, Swarmed, toiled, a vast, strange crowd: Haggard each worker's features seem, Bright, fever-bright, each eye's wild gleam, Nor cry, nor accent loud. But each man dug, or rocked, or bore, As if salvation w…
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- 2,558
- Year
- 1,884
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- Project Gutenberg
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- Record ID
- 2558
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Publication
- Old Melbourne Memories; Rolf Boldrewood
- Published
- 1884; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
- Narrative type
- Descriptive Belief Records
- Public-text label
- giant
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Melbourne, VIC (VIC): B
- State or territory
- VIC
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ged thy quiet home! For, close as bees in countless hive, Like emmet hosts that earnest strive, Swarmed, toiled, a vast, strange crowd: Haggard each worker's features seem, Bright, fever-bright, each eye's wild gleam, Nor cry, nor accent loud. But each man dug, or rocked, or bore, As if salvation with the ore Of the mine-monarch lay. Gold strung each arm to giant might, Gold flashed before each aching sight, Gold turned the night to day. Where Eblis reigns o'er boundless gloom, And, in his halls of endless doom Lost souls for ever roam, They wander (says the Eastern tale), Nor ever startles moan or wail Despair's eternal home..
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