The creek went down with a broken song, <br /> 'Neath the sheoaks high; <br />The waters carried the song along, <br /> And the oaks a sigh. <br /> <br />The song and the sigh went winding by, <br /> Went winding down; <br />Circling the foot of the mountain high, <br /> And the hillside brown. <br /> <br />They were hushed in the swamp of the Dead Man's Crime, <br /> Where the curlews cried; <br />But they reached the river the self-same time, <br /> And there they died. <br /> <br />And the creek of life goes winding on, <br /> Wandering by; <br />And bears for ever, its course upon, <br /> A song and a sigh.<br /><br />Henry Lawson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-song-and-the-sigh/
