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It was shearing-time at the Myall Lake, / And there rose the sound thro' the livelong day / Of the constant clash that the shear-blades make / When the fastest shearers are making play, / But there wasn't a man in the shearers' lines / That could shear a sheep with the two Devines.
They had rung the sheds of the east and west, / Had beaten the cracks of the Walgett side, / And the Cooma shearers had giv'n them best -- / When they saw them shear, they were satisfied. / From the southern slopes to the western pines / They were noted men, were the two Devines.