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Barcroft Boake Quotes

1866–1892 Australia

Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake (26 March 1866 – 2 May 1892) was an Australian stockman and poet who wrote primarily within the bush poetry tradition. He was active for only a few years before his suicide at the age of 26.

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Out on the wastes of the Never Never —
That's where the dead men lie!
There where the heat-waves dance forever —
That's where the dead men lie!

The pick of the mountain mob, bays, greys, or roans,
He proved in his death that the pace ’tis that kills;
And a sun-shrunken hide o’er a few whitened bones
Marks the last resting-place of the Lord of the Hills.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barcroft Boake (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.