| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 187. O City, look the Eastward Way |
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| O CITY, look the Eastward way! | |
| Beyond thy roofs of shadowy red and grey | |
| Floats like a lily on the airy stream, | |
| Radiant and vast, a cloud, | |
| Around whose billowy head | 5 |
| Splendour from out the glooming West is shed | |
| As if it were not ever to take flight,— | |
| And on its edge of gleam | |
| In the clear blue of waning afternoon, | |
| Faint as a spirit slipping from the shroud, | 10 |
| Faint, and yet gathering light, | |
| The Moon. | |
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| O city, dream and pray! | |
| This is thy evensong at close of day. | |
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