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C J Dennis - The Listening Week
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This is the listening week of the year --
      Listening-in.
A-cock and alert is the national ear --
      Listening-in.
All over the land in the country towns,
From the back of the Leeuwin to Darling Downs,
Layers of "quids" or the odd half-crowns,
     They are listening-in.
 
On the far-flung farms they are round each set,
      Listening-in.
The work and the worry they all forget,
      Listening-in.
Wherever an aerial soars in space
To the Cup, or the Oaks or the Steeplechase,
To the roar of the ring and the lure of the race
   They are listening-in.
 
In the far outback there are sun-tanned men,
      Listening-in.
Where the woolshed stands by the drafting pen --
      Listening-in.
Old Dad`s come in from the Ninety Mile;
He scored on the Cup and he wears a smile,
And he "reckons this game is well worth while" --
      So he`s listening in.
 
To the edge of the desert the sound-waves go;
      And, listening-in,
Ned of the Overland, Saltbush Joe --
      Listening-in --
Recall the giants of years long past,
And the loneliness of these spaces vast;
But they reckon that life`s worth living at last
      With this listening-in.
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