On Old Bendigo.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 September 1913, Page 2

On Old Bendigo.

« : (Written for The Chronicle.) 1 am heartsick and tired of strugs glo and strife, 5 And thoughts will drift back, g r m tbe twilight of life, 6 lo the old days, the gold days of 9 long, long ago, j. VVlieii I stood by the stampers r } on old Bencligo. 7 Chorus.—My head it is bent, and 4 my step it is slow, f. I "ve wandered this wide world <\ r i for years, to and fro, 3 There's music that haunts ji me wherever i go, Tis the song of the stampers on Old Bendigo. Witb 'Eyetalians of every calling and creed L've fossicked Otago with Gabriel Reed, _ And Gabriel's Gully, if wasn't too j slow, ( , If would make a good patch upon Old Bendigo. Against luck, in Coolgardie, 1 played a lone hand, I've studied the problems of race ■; on The Rand ; 1 But a country that won't give a white man a show, 1 Isn't fit to be mentioned with Old Benditi-o! r Now T'm working my way back to Kangaroo Flat, Whore I toiled in the Fifties with Hobarf Town Pat; 1 AI (lie back of The Ovens poor Paddy lies low, \ Hut I've ordered "my" bone box for Old Bendigo. ! Tliouyh F ne'er may recall I hose old glorious days 01" Brooks, and old Thatcher, and Katherinc Hayes, When 1 go to that rush where all old diggers go, My u'host will steal back to thee Old Bendigo. ■TACK VINCENT. . !.-vin, 1013.