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54 (It's the Railway Gap to-day, though). Then my Whisper waked to hound me:—

"Something lost behind the Ranges. Over yonder. Go you there!"

Then I knew, the while I doubted—knew His Hand was certain o'er me.

Still—it might be self-delusion—scores of better men had died—

I could reach the township living, but ... He knows what terrors tore me ...

But I didn't ... but I didn't. I went down the other side.

Till the snow ran out in flowers, and the flowers turned to aloes,

And the aloes sprung to thickets and a brimming stream ran by;

But the thickets dwined to thorn-scrub, and the water drained to shallows—

And I dropped again on desert, blasted earth, and blasting sky....