e time to
extend your hands and hearts in true sympathy to a brother in misfortune,
and spirits to laugh and joke and be cheerful.

And for my sisters a great love and pity fills my heart. Daughters of
toil, who scrub and wash and mend and cook, who are dressmakers,
paperhangers, milkmaids, gardeners, and candle-makers all in one, and yet
have time to be cheerful and tasty in your homes, and make the best of
the few oases to be found along the narrow dusty track of your existence.
Would that I were more worthy to be one of you--more a typical Australian
peasant--cheerful, honest, brave!

I love you, I love you. Bravely you jog along with the rope of class
distinction drawing closer, closer, tighter, tighter around you: a few
more generations and you will be as enslaved as were ever the moujiks of
Russia. I see it and know it, but I cannot help you. My ineffective life
will be trod out in the same round of toil--I am only one of yourselves,
I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a--woman!

The great sun is sinking in the west, grinning and winking knowingly as
he goes, upon the starving stock and drought-smitten wastes of land.
Nearer he draws to the gum-tree scrubby horizon, turns the clouds to
orange, scarlet, silver flame, gold! Down, down he goes. The gorgeous,
garish splendour of sunset pageantry flames out; the long shadows eagerly
cover all; the kookaburras laugh their merry mocking good-night; the
clouds fade to turquoise, green, and grey; the stars peep shyly out; the
soft call of the mopoke arises in the gullies! With much love and good
wishes to all--Good night! Good-bye!

AMEN

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