Thomas Henry Kendall

“ Let the lost things come about you, set your thoughts and hear and heed.
Time has laid his burden on us – we who wear our manhood now,
We would be the boys we have been, free of heart and bright of brow –
Be the boys for just an hour, with the splendour and the speech
Of thy lights and thunders, Coogee, flying up thy gleaming beach. ”

“ But the old things were the dearest and the old loves seem the best.
We that start at songs familiar, we that tremble at a tone
Floating down the ways of music, like a sigh of sweetness flown,
We can never feel the freshness, never find again the mood
Left among fair-featured places, brightened of our brotherhood.
This and this we have to think of when the night is over all,
And the woods begin to perish and the rains begin to fall.
This work is in the public domain in Australia because it was created in Australia and the term of copyright has expired. ”