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Blue gum, red gum, grey gum, stringy-bark, iron-bark, and black-butt; the trees which surrounded Jess for fifty miles on every side were practically all of the eucalyptus family.

Now and again a few wandering emus would cross the grey gum plains around us, and then, as they caught sight of our figures, shamble quickly off again.

My Queen of Dreams In the warm flushed heart of the rose-red west,  When the great sun quivered and died to-day, You pulsed, O star, by yon pine-clad crest —  And throbbed till the bright eve ashened grey —     Then I saw you swim     By the shadowy rim Where the grey gum dips to the western plain,     And you rayed delight     As you winged your flight To the mystic spheres where your kinsmen reign.