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But what's the use of writing ‘bush' -- / Though editors demand it -- / For city folk, and farming folk, / Can never understand it. / They're blind to what the bushman sees / The best with eyes shut tightest, / Out where the sun is hottest and / The stars are most and brightest.
The crows at sunrise flopping round / Where some poor life has run down; / The pair of emus trotting from / The lonely tank at sundown, / Their snaky heads well up, and eyes / Well out for man's manœuvres, / And feathers bobbing round behind / Like fringes round improvers.