A QUEENSLAND TRAGEDY.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20495, 14 March 1932, Page 13

A QUEENSLAND TRAGEDY.

. TO TBS KSITOB 0» THB F&EBSV • Sir,—l read with interest your Aw tralian'correspondents account of• a swagger's death from thirst in the arid Queensland v back country, though" only three hundred yards from a river. The fdllowing lines, which appeared, many years ago in the "Bulletin," are sadly appropriate to the incident.—Yours, etc., ■', .-■:•■ CUB Temuka, March llth, 1932. [The verses enclosed are as" follows s THE LAST OAMP.. We found hinr where the empty river, bed Ended his hope, and left him but to die Alone, unwatched, without one pitying aigb. To ease his parting; so his soul was sped; And. yet—it seemed so strange—his pillowed head . , Lay quietly at rest, fronting the sly/ ■ His mouth was smiling still, bis .brow , held high'; Almost a man he looked, lying there dead. The sun had .burned' him," storms lad . beaten him, . This nameless, ageless wanderer who -threw His swag of troubles down, willing to •"'"•' ; cease, Since i life had turned to him a face so . .. , grim. ■. ... ... He smiled at death with the : last breath he drew. """ ■ " Grievous struggle "bat - how grand' ~ bit