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[TO THE MEMORY OF MY PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS whose philosophical wit and wisdom and high integrity are a living legend of the Murrumbidgee.]
Memory recaptures a song or two echoing wistfully through the generations of Delacy in the voice of old Fearless Danny. He was wont to rune to himself as he sat alone, thrust aside by his sons as childish, his eyes glazed with absence--that retreat of the aged when time has wrung the colours from the present and left the rose and green only on the distant fields of youth.