Bush Echoes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Bush Echoes "There are rhymes rudely strung with intent less of sound than of words, In a land where bright blossoms are scentless and songless bright birds." These lines were written by my old friend Adam Lindsay Gordon, and it has always been a mystery to me why he and also Marcus Clarke, both of whom were keen lovers of Nature, should have described our flowers as scentless and our birds as songless. The Shrike of Central Australia, known locally as the Butcher bird, with his joyous flute-like notes, is unrivalled as a songster, while the Australian Magpie is little, if anything, inferior to him. Among the flowering shrubs, the Golden Wattle, the Boronia Megastigma and the Eucalyptus Citriodora cannot be truly described as scentless. Their delicious perfume, with the early morning dew upon them, Is all pervading, yet subtly sweet, without being oppressive. Australia is certainly a land of strange contradictions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.