Tumut
Takee
Murriwillumba
Bowral
Ballarat
Mullengudgery
Murrurundi
Wagga-Wagga
Wyalong
Murrumbidgee
Goomeroo
Wolloway
Wangary
Wanilla
Worrow
Koppio
Yankalilla
Yaranyacka
Yackamoorundie
Kaiwaka
Coomooroo
Tauranga
Geelong
Tongariro
Kaikoura
Wakatipu
Oohipara
Waitpinga
Goelwa
Munno Para
Nangkita
Myponga
Kapunda
Kooringa
Penola
Nangwarry
Kongorong
Comaum
Koolywurtie
Killanoola
Naracoorte
Muloowurtie
Binnum
Wallaroo
Wirrega
Mundoora
Hauraki
Rangiriri
Teawamute
Taranaki
Toowoomba
Goondiwindi
Jerrilderie
Whangaroa
Wollongong
Woolloomooloo
Bombola
Coolgardie
Bendigo
Coonamble
Cootamundra
Woolgoolga
Mittagong
Jamberoo
Kondoparinga
Kuitpo
Tungkillo
Oukaparinga
Talunga
Yatala
Parawirra
Moorooroo
Whangarei
Woolundunga
Booleroo
Pernatty
Parramatta
Taroom
Narrandera
Deniliquin
Kawakawa.
It may be best to build the poem now, and make the weather help
A sweltering day in Australia.
(To be read soft and low, with the lights turned down.)
The
Bombola faints in the hot Bowral tree,
Where
fierce Mullengudgery’s smothering fires
Far
from the breezes of Coolgardie
Burn
ghastly and blue as the day expires;
And
Murriwillumba complaineth in song
For
the garlanded bowers of Woolloomooloo,
And
the Ballarat Fly and the lone Wollongong
They
dream of the gardens of Jamberoo;
The
wallabi sighs for the Murrubidgee,
For
the velvety sod of the Munno Parah,
Where
the waters of healing from Muloowurtie
Flow
dim in the gloaming by Yaranyackah;
The
Koppio sorrows for lost Wolloway,
And
sigheth in secret for Murrurundi,
The
Whangeroo wombat lamenteth the day
That
made him an exile from Jerrilderie;
The
Teawamute Tumut from Wirrega’s glade,
The
Nangkita swallow, the Wallaroo swan,
They
long for the peace of the Timaru shade
And
thy balmy soft airs, O sweet Mittagong!
The
Kooringa buffalo pants in the sun,
The
Kondoparinga lies gaping for breath,
The
Kongorong Camaum to the shadow has won,
But
the Goomeroo sinks in the slumber of death;
In
the weltering hell of the Moorooroo plain
The
Yatala Wangary withers and dies,
And
the Worrow Wanilla, demented with pain,
To
the Woolgoolga woodlands despairingly flies;