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The sun strikes down with a blinding glare, / The skies are blue and the plains are wide, / The saltbush plains that are burnt and bare / By Walgett out on the Barwon side -- / The Barwon river that wanders down / In a leisurely manner by Walgett Town.
There came a stranger -- a 'Cockatoo' -- / The word means farmer, as all men know / Who dwell in the land where the kangaroo / Barks loud at dawn, and the white-eyed crow / Uplifts his song on the stock-yard fence / As he watches the lambkins passing hence.