a couple of stanzas from his verses in the "Pall Mall Magazine";-- Bluff and burly and splendid,
Through roaring traffic--tides,
By secret lightnings attended,
The land-ship hisses and glides.
And I sit and its bridge and I watch and I dream.
While the world goes gallantly by,
With all its crowded houses and its colored shops a-stream,
Under the June-blue sky,
Heigh-ho !
Under the June-blue sky,
Oh! What does It mean, all the pageant and the pity,
The waste and the wonder and the shame?
I am riding tow'rds the sunset through the vision of a city
Which we cloak with the stupor of a name !
I am riding through ten thousand thousand tragedies and terrors,
Ten million heavens that save and hells that damn,"
And the lightning draws my car tow'rds the golden evening star;
So I'll say that I was riding on a tram,"
Heigh, ho!
I'll say that I was riding on a tram. Notes From the NSW Newspaper The Australian Star 30 May 1908 p. 12.