BACK TO BILLABONG 

by 

MARY GRANT BRUCE 

1921 

"Beyond the distant sky-line
(Now pansy-blue and clear),
We know a land is waiting,
A brown land, very dear:
A land of open spaces,
Gaunt forest, treeless plain:
And if we once have loved it
We must come back again." 

(Dorothea Mackellar.)