Potential Titles: Ida Lee

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This was a Project Gutenberg author. I noticed some slurs and imperialism/colonialism with Australian inflections that I can't entirely parse. As I'm far from certain I pegged everything. I'm putting a Here Be Dragons warning on the source material but hope to have side-stepped such things in the excerpts.



If I could bring back yesterday - Ida Lee "Bill, the Groom"

To calm his troubled dreams - Ida Lee "Bill, the Groom"

In whose limbs the parrots sleep - Ida Lee "The Bush Fire"

While trees unbent and listened - Ida Lee "The Drover's Vision"

When vespers soar through the winding stairs - Ida Lee "The Fish-Girl's Song"

Silver-like thread the tarantula weaves - Ida Lee "The Forest King's Lament"

Kingfishers dazzling the light of the sun - Ida Lee "The Forest King's Lament"

Restful pastures by the flowing creek - Ida Lee "The Homestead"

Grasp the fallen sceptre of the day - Ida Lee "The Homestead"

Feathered monarch of the lonely west - Ida Lee "The Homestead"

From caution snatched the reins - Ida Lee "The Homestead"

Sweet dreams their cobwebs spin - Ida Lee "The Homestead"

Sending sparks in feathery flashes - Ida Lee "Nature's Lessons"

On a pathway beset with jagged stone - Ida Lee "The Promise"

And creeping mists assert their sway - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

From sober black to faintest blue - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

Where glow-worm shows his tiny lamp - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

Amid the reeds at setting sun - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

Or cast one pebble on the sand - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

Falling thick in showers of hail - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

Tossed aside the golden sheaf - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

Cut like steel each tiny leaf - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

To blot the sins of dawn away - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

While angry thunders make reply - Ida Lee "The Water Frog"


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