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The Township Lights

Edward S. Sorenson

Where roads are long and lonely
    And travel hard and slow,
With hope and comfort only
    In thoughts that forward go;
When nights are dark and dreary,
    When ways are dry and brown,
How cheery to the weary
    The far lights of the town!

Though it be small, bush-skirted
    And scattered, dull and grey,
Where roadways seem deserted
    And crude the shacks by day,
It somehow seems imposing,
    A fairyland by night,
With every home disclosing ,
    Its tiny beams of light.

A welcome to the rover
    They flash through dark and rain,
A tonic to the drover,
    Far jogging on the plain;
From winding road and alley
    It looks with jewelled eyes
Across the silent valley,
    The township on the rise.

They call with soft persistence,
    Although their glow be dim,
Low in the murky distance,
    Seen from the range’s rim,
The lights where peace is graven,
    And travel-cares may drown;
They mark a happy haven,
    The far lights of the town.

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