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Preface

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This little work is a collection of verses composed in leisure moments, many of them when at home on a western farm as I waited at night for the horses to finish feeding before turning them through the sliprails after a day at the plough. Some were composed by the camp fire, where I often sat alone watching the dying embers of boxwood when no sound broke the stillness of the night save, perhaps, the tinkle of a horse bell, or the distant cry of a curlew. Others were written in town and some in New Zealand.

I shall feel gratified if their perusal gives my old mates any pleasure.

William Dean