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Though I can't afford a hunter -more's the pity, I love a rousing gallop like the rest!- Every morning as I travel to the city I have five and forty minutes of the best.…
Born in Kelso, Scotland, Ogilvie moved to Australia at the age of twenty. One of his reasons for leaving his homeland was his admiration of the writer Adam Lindsay Gordon and like Gordon, a great love for horses. When he arrived in Australia he found work as a drover, a breaker, and a musterer. He worked at Maroupe, located in South Australia as well as Belalie on the Warrego. It was during this time that he began writing, his poetry focusing on the Outback life and it's many adventures in an acclamatory, romantic verse. Ogilvie had many of his works published in the Mount Gambier Border Watch, the Australasian and the Bulletin. A couple of years before his return to Scotland in 1901 he published his most well known collection of verse in 1898. It is considered to be his best and most notable piece of work. While all of his works were published in Australia, he never returned. After his return to Scotland he continued to write poems that concerned the Scottish borders. The well known poet, Hugh McDairmund, hailed his work as a triumph. Unfortunately, though he was successful in both countries, he died practically unknown and has become one of the more obscure poets of that era.)
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We need no crown or sceptre, for now that it is spring, just a little bit of garden- and every man's a king!…
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As I wandered home By Hedworth Combe I heard a lone horse whinney, And saw on the hill…
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Right and left the leaders wheel, Seeking gap and gate, Catch his head and give him heel! Ride your country straight!…
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Now what do you want to be playing about for, Reefing and reaching your head for the bit? This is the gentlest of canters you're out for, And neither yourself nor your rider is fit…
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With arrows on their quarters and with numbers on their hoofs, With the trampling sound of twenty that re-echoes in the roofs, Low of crest and dull of coat, wan and wild of eye, T…
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There's colour in the woodlands as far as eye can reach, Pale gold upon the elm-tree and bronze upon the beech; To witch the world with beauty a hundred hues ally - But bonniest is…
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If I call, will you hear me, O comrades of mine, When the sky in the East holds the grey of the dawn, When the soft wind is stirring the plumes of the pine And the shadow goes glid…
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Ho! You there, selling daffodils along the windy street, Poor drooping, dusty daffodils - but oh! so Summer sweet! Green stems that stab with loveliness, rich petal-cups to hold Th…
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My road is fenced with the bleached, white bones And strewn with the blind, white sand, Beside me a suffering, dumb world moans On the breast of a lonely land.…
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Come, horsemen all, from every field And taste this rare delight, And see what English pastures yield To those whose hearts beat right!…
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Great big lolloping lovable things! Rolling and tumbling on every lawn, Tearing at slippers and bones and wings- Wonderful loot from the ash-heap drawn:…
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Store cattle from Nelanjie! The mob goes feeding past, With half-a-mile of sandhill 'twixt the leaders and the last; The nags that move behind them are the good old Queensland stam…
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‘ He's away ! '- With a quickened wild beat of the heart Every horseman responds, riding hard for a start, While back on the breeze with insistence is borne The clamour of hounds a…
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Hands! Gentle Hands! When the Field at covert stands, When your four-rear-old is sweating, Foamed and fidgety and fretting…
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