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Fire lighted, on the table a meal for sleepy men, / A lantern in the stable, a jingle now and then; / The mail coach looming darkly by light of moon and star, / The growl of sleepy voices -- a candle in the bar; / A stumble in the passage of folk with wits abroad; / A swear-word from a bedroom -- the shout of ‘All aboard! ' / ‘Tchk-tchk! Git-up! ' ‘Hold fast, there! ' and down the range we go; / Five hundred miles of scattered camps will watch for Cobb and Co.
Old coaching towns already ‘decaying for their sins,' / Uncounted ‘Half-Way Houses,' and scores of ‘Ten Mile Inns; ' / The riders from the stations by lonely granite peaks; / The black-boy for the shepherds on sheep and cattle creeks; / The roaring camps of Gulgong, and many a ‘Digger's Rest; ' / The diggers on the Lachlan; the huts of Furthest West; / Some twenty thousand exiles who sailed for weal or woe; / The bravest hearts of twenty lands will wait for Cobb and Co.