But oft when alone, in the bloom of the year,
I think—Is the nightingale singing there yet?
Do the roses still bloom by the calm Bendemeer?
The ?sthetic pioneer who bestowed2 this romantic name upon the New England village between Tamworth and Uralla probably realised a hazy3 similarity. Yet roses must have been few and far between, eminently4 suitable as are soil and climate; and the nightingale awaits the millennium5 of acclimatisers. The sparrow—wastrel of Europe that he is—doth first appear. The clear stream of the Macdonald, winding6 through the green hill-encircled valley, renders the comparison faintly apposite. On the whole, the name of Bendemeer will sound as well to our federal successors as Curra-wohbo-lah or Murra-munga-myne; and if it sets young Australia to reading Lalla Rookh, it may act as a counterpoise to overmuch devotion to wool and horse-racing—may even tend to the cult7 which emollit mores8.
These slight incongruities9 notwithstanding, I would counsel any Australian Beckford, in want of a site for the antipodean Fonthill, to realise the poet's dream in the vale of Bendemeer (Great Northern Railway line, New South Wales), and so immortalise himself in the minds of generations of grateful compatriots.
As I stand in front of the little hostelry in the sweet moonrise of this summer night and gaze around, my heart sympathises with the unknown sentimental10 sponsor. I feel constrained11 to admit that he had the true poetic12 insight, piercing the measureless spaces of the future—
Far as human eye can see.
399It is the last month of the year, in the hour for a 'midsummer night's dream' (antipodean); the fervent13 noonday glare has given place to the fresh, delicious temperature which in this elevated region succeeds sunset; the heavens are cloudless. As the moon's orb14 is slowly lifted, the grand mountain-chain which lies beyond the head waters of the river shows clearly defined in majestic16 gloom and ebon shades.
On the hills which enclose this fair green valley, each tree-stem, bough17, and frond18 is traced with pre-Raphaelite distinctness. Fronting the inn, on the river-terrace, hang the pendent branches of an aged20 willow21-tree, the umbrageous22 spread of which has caused its utilisation as a shade for the horses of customers and wayfarers23. A round dozen of these have just been released from durance, as their owners, warned of the closing hour, ride off into the night. The equestrian24 habit principally differentiates25 the tavern26 of the new country from that of the old. Otherwise, in the matter of civility, cleanliness, and quietude, this particular inn and some others I affect in my rambles27 closely resemble the snug28 roadside retreats of Old England.
As I pace slowly over the thick green sward which carpets the river-meadow, the thought pursues me of what changes the future Lord of Bendemeer would find requisite30. Aided by the Genius of Capital, they could not be wholly impracticable. And what a delicious Palace of Summer Delights, a charmed refuge from the world's woe31 and the clamorous32 chatter33 of society, might he rear amidst these cloistered34 shades! Important alterations35, not in accordance with latter-day legislation, would be first effected. The acquisition of the freehold for leagues around, the disestablishment of stores, telegraph-and post-offices—pernicious contrivances these last for bringing unrest into remotest solitudes36; the closing of schools and churches; the abrogation37 of the utilities; the suppression of trade; the exile of industry; I include with regret the old-fashioned, reposeful38 hostelry. Happy thought! It would probably be spared until the army of workmen required for the erection of the palace had been disbanded; as also, for similar reasons, the police-barrack which dominates the district, whence issues the man-at-arms of the period, 'native and to the manner born,' but soldierly and erect39 of bearing—a 400sleuth-hound in pursuit of horse-thieves and highwaymen, mounted and accoutred proper upon the good steed which he alone can rein40.
The railway-line has been averted41 by good genii or through the laissez aller tone of thought which characterises the inhabitants of the vale. It clangs and thunders through a gorge42 on the head waters of the river, thus avoiding desecration43 by scrambling44 tourists and irreverent sons of commerce; but a huge, white, staring wooden bridge, the financial goal and triumph of the local tradesfolk, disfigures the rippling45 moonlit water. At a wave of the magic wand it disappears. A fairy-like structure arises in its place, delicate with marble tracery of pillars and arches, where the elves may flit love-whispering through the long sweet nights, may beckon46 to the Lorelei as she combs her tresses and warbles the fateful song on the rock which guards the midstream above the shimmering47 whirlpool.
The passes are guarded; the river-course on either side securely barricaded48 against the conditional49 purchaser and the drover—sole survivors50 they of the raider and moss-trooper, which a too considerate civilisation51 permits. Deer alone are permitted to crop the herbage of the park-like slopes; under the heavy shadows of the mountain, the leaping trout52 and lordly salmon53, the ancient carp with silver-gleaming sides, would flash through stream and pool (this last no visionary image) as the shadows lengthened54 and the twilight55 stole tremulously forward. When the day was done, on such a full-orbed night as this, 'the harp56, the lute57, the viol's cry' should awaken58 the echoes as a most fair company (for would not all gallant59 knights60 and gracieuses, dames61 and damsels—whether summoned from afar or dwelling62 near at hand—with attendant poets and troubadours, be free of right to the enchanted63 vale?) flee the hours with song and dance till bright Cynthia paled at the approaching dawn, or, wandering through cedarn64 alleys65 and rose-thickets, listen to the nightingale's song as it blended with the murmur66 of silver-plashing fountains. The gnomes67 that dwell in the mountain passes, where they pile undreamed-of heaps of ore, steal forth68 to watch the enchanted revels69. The river elves and fays float through mazy measures in fairy rings, or recline, 'neath starry70 fragrant71 blossoms, on rose-leaf couches. Even 401the unseen genius of the Austral wild—no malign72, amorphous73 terror, but a benignant sylvan74 deity—might peer through the forest leaves and smile wonderingly at the fantasies of the 'coming race.'
Hark! Is that the grey owl15? With strange, unmelodious cry he stirs the stillness. I turn to watch him, as he swims the night air with moveless wing—dropping, like the emissary of an evil witch, on the willow branch between me and the moon. Bird of ill omen75, thou hast shattered my dream! The Palace has disappeared, the lutes are silent, the fair company dispersed76; the nightingale, that sang of 'love, and love's sharp woe,' is mute for another century. Only the faint plash of the river, rippling over its sand-bars; only the mountain shadows beneath the waning77, gibbous moon; only the unbroken silence of the Austral woodland, brooding, majestic, as of one watching through the eternities for the birth of a nation. 'The light that never was on sea or land' fades rapidly, and with the sigh that greets the evanishing of the undersoul's fair fantasies I seek my couch.
An early réveillé comes Duty, with reason-compelling Circumstance; a deputation demanding answers to questions, of which due notice has been given. 'Enterprises of great pith and moment are imminent78.' We must to horse and away, not betaking ourselves to pilgrim's staff, as is customary with us; time permits not. What bard79—was it the sweet singer of a Brisbane Reverie, 'The Complaint of the Doves,' the laureate of Royalty80 (black), the minstrel of the desert steed, that in a lighter81 hour proclaimed—
For I am bound to Stanthorpe town,
And time with me is tin?
We are not journeying quite so far as the stanniferous stronghold; yet is our errand not unconnected with the metal that the Silures and Ph?nicians delved82 for in Cornwall long before Julius C?sar, without reference to the susceptibilities of king, kaiser, or chancellor83, established his protectorate of Britain.
The stern Roman, the world's master, has vanished from among the tribes of men. His descendant, an ignoble84 fainéant, a stolid85 peasant, or a hired model, sells the right to mould 402the heroic form which has survived the heroic soul. The wide-ranging, sea-roving Anglo-Saxon, descendant of the fiercer races, has succeeded to his heritage of universal empire.
But can it be that the mother of nations is sinking into senile decrepitude86, with selfish querulousness evading87 responsibility, only to lapse88 into deserved decay of power, and well-merited insignificance89 in the council halls of the world?
Oh for one hour of Wallace wight,
Or well-skilled Bruce to rule the fight!
sang Scotland's bard, in the lament90 for the fortunes of the field which sealed his country's fate. May not the modern Briton make the application, and in mingled91 wrath92 and despair regret the lost leader, who trod firmly, if warily93, who drifted not, irresolutely94 weak, from peril95 to disasters, and delayed not the call to arms until the foe96 was at the gate of the citadel97?[2]
2. Written in 1884.
But this savours of the digressive98. Where are we? Whither is this plaguey, many-sided, chiefly unnecessary, or wholly superfluous99, mental apparatus100, as some hold (being rarely serviceable in the muck-rake or money-storing business), leading us? To fairyland but yesternight; anon to Albion, Germany, Rome, amid Liberal Ministers even, to their Austral countrymen all too illiberal101, stepfatherly, stern, repressive. Prose and the present to the rescue! So we fare on, the trooper and I, along the course of the Macdonald, in the fresh purity of this New England summer morn. How blithe102 and gladsome are all things! Hard is it to believe that disease, death, and unforeseen disaster can exist in so fair a world! The river ripples103 merrily onward104, or sleeps in deep pools under o'erhanging oaks, whence the shy wild-duck floats out with dusky brood, or the heron rises from the reedy marge and sweeps along the winding stream. Masses of granite105 overhang the water. The everlasting106 hills rear themselves, scarped and terraced, at dizzy altitudes on either side. The late rains have lent a velvet107, emerald tinge108 to the thick-growing matted sward. Marguerites, dandelions, white and yellow immortelles, the crimson109 bunches of hakea, fringed 403violets, with bright purple masses of swainsonia, diversify110 mead29 and upland. Tiny rills and springheads show a well-watered country—'a land that drinks the rain of Heaven at will.' Ever and anon the willow, with foliage111 of vivid tender green, contrasts with the sombre filaments112 of the river oak.
My companion is an active, intelligent young fellow—a native-born Australian, whose fair hair and steadfast113 grey-blue eyes show that the Anglo-Saxon type is not likely to alter materially in Southern Britain.
He and his horse are well suited—the latter a well-bred bay, fast at a finish, and ready to stay for ever. He has done a hundred miles on end before now, and been ridden twenty hours out of the twenty-four. In more than one skirmish, when revolvers were out, he has proved steady under fire, and is the very model, in appearance, in condition, and pace, of what a charger should be in a troop of Irregular Horse. As he stretches along with smooth, fast, easy stride, he looks as quiet as a lamb, and what superficial critics call 'properly broken in.' None the less will he refuse to let a stranger bridle114, much less ride him; he would in such case snort and plunge115 like an unbacked colt.
I have had no experience of the metropolitan116 police, against whom it is occasionally the wont117 of a section of the press to say hard things. These may be true or false, for what I know, though I am disposed to believe the latter. But for the last twenty years I have had much knowledge of the mounted portion of the New South Wales force in the towns and districts of the interior, and I willingly record my testimony—not being in official relations with them at present—that a more efficient, well-disciplined, well-behaved body of men—smart, serviceable, and self-respecting—does not exist in any part of the world. In old days they were sometimes at a disadvantage against outlaws118, who could ride and track like Comanchee Indians, the police being chiefly of British birth and rearing. But the mounted troopers are now largely recruited from natives of the colony, or men who have lived here from their youth. In one of these, as in my guide of to-day, the cattle-thief or other criminal has a pursuer to contend with as well mounted as himself, and fully119 his match in all the arcana of bushcraft.
404But good as the white Australian may be at following a track, his sable120 compatriot is a degree better. A tamed preadamite, either borrowed for the occasion from a squatter121, or attached by pay and cast-off uniform to a police-barrack, makes a matchless sleuth-hound. Such a one, I am told, helped to run down a notorious party of horse-thieves in these very mountains, following with astonishing accuracy the marauders, who travelled only by night, using every artifice122 as well to blind tracks and divert pursuers.
We cross the river once more, and note an island, upon which in floodtime a leading pastoral proprietor123 was washed down and nearly drowned. Another mile discovers a picturesquely-situated homestead, overlooking the river, where, winding round a granite promontory124, it turns westward125 on its way to the great plain beyond the 'divide.' The roses proclaim their vicinity to the famed Bendemeer, the decomposed126 granite having a special chemical affinity127; while the violets, large of leaf and profuse128 of bloom, seem as if prepared to found a new variety, so widely do they differ from the ordinary floweret.
For half a century or more has the venerable pioneer dwelt hard by the river-brim, where now, handsomely lodged129, garden-surrounded, he dispenses130 hospitality, with all the concomitants of successful pastoral life around him, save and excepting only the wife and bairns, the stalwart sons and bright-eyed daughters, with which so worthy131 and energetic a colonist132 should have strengthened the State. But 'non cuivis contingit adire Corinthum'; it is not every man's lot thus to wind up life's tale. And it may be conceded that he who at an advanced age, retaining every faculty133 unimpaired, is permitted to view the work of his hands, conducted from the stage of the untamed wild to smiling prosperity, who can look forward cheerfully to end his days among a population entirely134 composed of friends and well-wishers, has secured a large proportion of the good which is permissible135 to mortal man.
Onward, still onward, ride we, for many a mile must be passed ere sunset. Onward through rugged136 defiles137 and rock-strewn passes, over which the sure-footed steeds are constrained to clamber like chamois. Indeed we are nearly blocked in consequence of adopting one very tempting138 'cut,'—by the 405way, in bush parlance139, the old English predicate has been eliminated, and with reason; one does not speak of a 'long cut,'—for we find ourselves in the centre of a rock labyrinth140 locally termed a 'gaol141.' The path, however, amid the huge boulders142 eventually conducts us to a grand granite-floored terrace, apparently143 constructed by one of the Kings of Bashan. Here we have a wide, extended view of the varied144 landscape, 'valley and mountain and woodland,' but it does not otherwise serve our purpose.
Speedily recovering lost ground, we strike the creek145 and the tin mines thereon located, which had been the cause of the exploration. The sanguine146, undaunted prospectors147 are as usual delving148 and ditching, felling the forest, constructing dams, and generally committing assault and robbery upon patient mother Hertha.
We see the stream tin being washed out everywhere, like dark-coloured pebbly149 gravel150. We note where the same rivulet151 has been formerly152 ravaged153 by the wandering mining hordes154. We thread the gorges155 which lead into a rock-walled alpine156 valley, not inaptly named the 'Giant's Den19,' and there meet with tin—more tin—toujours tin. For this fastness of the Titans has been turned into the Grand United Sluicing157 Company—no liability, let us say—and for the ten thousandth time, more or less, we admire the indomitable pluck and sanguine confidence of the miner proper. Here steam engines, pumping machinery158, iron piping by the mile, dams, houses, men and material, are all found, in different stages of adaptation to an end. Evidently the shareholders159, some of whom are practical men of transcolonial experience, have faith in the venture. The energetic Victorian captain beguiles160 us into a long, hot, pedestrian tour of inspection161. He, always in advance, shovel162 on shoulder, prospects163 from time to time, and 'pans out,' with invariable success, the stanniferous gravel. Sooth to say, we have reached at length the mystic region where there is no 'want of tin.' It occurs everywhere in abundance—in new ground, in old workings, in mullock, in trenches164, in each and every conceivable place. At the end of our bit of training, which mentally places us on a footing with Weston and other 'peds' of fame, we express our opinion that, with a steady supply of water for ground-sluicing, the Company should pay handsome dividends165 for years to come. The energetic 406captain, 'bred and born in a briar patch,' that is, on a goldfield, so that he is a 'legitimate166 miner' in every sense of the word, smiles appreciatively. We thankfully resume the saddle, and bid farewell to the 'Giant's Den.' 'It may be for years; it may be for ever.'
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