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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"photography",<br>"author":"alphaccino.art",<br>"permlink":"clancy-of-the-overflow",<br>"title":"Clancy Of The Overflow",<br>"body":"View this post on Hive: [Clancy Of The Overflow (https:\/\/peakd.com\/@alphaccino.art\/clancy-of-the-overflow)\n\n***\n\n# With Overflow Street Art\n\nNow bear with me,<br> there is a method to my madness...\n\nThese photos were some overflows from my Wednesday walk,<br> which got me thinking about 'Clancy of the Overflow' by the Australian bush poet,<br> A.B. 'Banjo' Patterson,<br> the same man who bought us 'Waltzing Matilda' and 'The Man From Snowy River'.\n\nAnyhoo,<br> after finding the poem,<br> I was really surprised by the relevance of the ballad and how his words still ring so true,<br> even in today's world.\n\nAnd,<br> well,<br> I thought I would share the poem along with the photos.\n\n---\n\n![[Imgur (https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wKrMZb1.jpg) (https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wKrMZb1.jpg)\n\n<sub>*Image enhanced with 'poster edges' filter*<\/sub>\n\n---\n\n### CLANCY OF THE OVERFLOW - A.B. \"Banjo\" Paterson\n\nI had written him a letter which I had,<br> for want of better\nKnowledge,<br> sent to where I met him down the Lachlan,<br> years ago,<br>\nHe was shearing when I knew him,<br> so I sent the letter to him,<br>\nJust \"on spec\",<br> addressed as follows: \"Clancy,<br> of The Overflow\".\n\nAnd an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,<br>\n(And I think the same was written in a thumbnail dipped in tar)\n'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it,<br> and verbatim I will quote it:\n\"Clancy's gone to Queensland droving,<br> and we don't know where he are.\"\n\nIn my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy\nGone a-droving \"down the Cooper\" where the western drovers go;\nAs the stock are slowly stringing,<br> Clancy rides behind them singing,<br>\nFor the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.\n\nAnd the bush hath friends to meet him,<br> and their kindly voices greet him\nIn the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,<br>\nAnd he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,<br>\nAnd at night the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars.\n\nI am sitting in my dingy little office,<br> where a stingy\nRay of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,<br>\nAnd the foetid air and gritty of the dusty,<br> dirty city\nThrough the open window floating,<br> spreads its foulness over all.\n\nAnd in place of lowing cattle,<br> I can hear the fiendish rattle\nOf the tramways and the buses making hurry down the street,<br>\nAnd the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting,<br>\nComes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.\n\nAnd the hurrying people daunt me,<br> and their pallid faces haunt me\nAs they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,<br>\nWith their eager eyes and greedy,<br> and their stunted forms and weedy,<br>\nFor townsfolk have no time to grow,<br> they have no time to waste.\n\nAnd I somehow fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy,<br>\nLike to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go,<br>\nWhile he faced the round eternal of the cashbook and the journal -\nBut I doubt he'd suit the office,<br> Clancy,<br> of \"The Overflow\".\n\nThe Bulletin,<br> 21 December 1889. 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