Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OUT FROM NOONKANBAH, by JOHN WILSON (19TH CENTURY)


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OUT FROM NOONKANBAH, by                    
First Line: The coolibahs quiver, / the snakewood moans
Last Line: Out from noonkanbah.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilo
Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Dead, The


THE coolibahs quiver,
The snakewood moans,
And bower-birds play
With Lin Bower's bones
While the thunder rolls
In ominous tones
Out from Noonkanbah.

When piccaninnies shriek
At a spectral sight
And dingoes howl
In the ghastly light
You'll know that Lin Bower
Walks at night
Out from Noonkanbah.

Away out there
Where horizons melt
There's a pair of boots,
Some mildewed felt,
A few old buttons
And a sun-cracked belt—
Out from Noonkanbah.

In articulo mortis,
Ah, forsook!
With a shovel of sand
And a leather-bound book
They buried him there
With the Chinese cook...
Out from Noonkanbah.





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