The old solitary tree--that well known landmark from
which the One Tree Plain takes its name is dying.
"Touch The Harp Gently"
Oh, how oft in the past have we viewed it afar :
A bold monarch of all it surveyed,
Standing lone and serene, like a brave desert queen,
Or a king, who has never betrayed.
Where the skyline is low, on that, vast cheerless plain,
Have we seen it at sunset, so drear,
And we've seen it at dawn, standing watch o'er its lawn,
That old lonely and wonderful tree,
Down the ages its lone and sad vigil it kept,
As the coachmen and teamsters sped by ;
A lone sentinel grand, looking out o'er the land,
There the elements cruel to defy.
Now, alas ! it is dying, 'way from its kind--
Will to chaos its mem'ry ne'er flee?
Will the man passing by of regret give a sigh,
For that aged and lonesome old tree?
Notes
--Phyl. Random
From the NSW Newspaper The Daily Advertiser 23 Jan 1931 p. 4.
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