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Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.

145. A Return

WE turned back mad from the mystic mountains,

All foamed with red and with elfin gold:

Up from the heart of the twilight’s fountains

The fires enchanted were starward rolled.

We turned back mad: we thought of the morrow,

The iron clang of the far-away town:

We could not weep in our bitter sorrow,

But joy as an Arctic sun went down.