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FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR.
the newspaper, and from the map, I have made a collection of curious names of Australasian towns, with the idea of making a poem out of them:
- Tumut
- Takee
- Murriwillumba
- Bowral
- Ballarat
- Mullengudgery
- Murrurundi
- Wagga-Wagga
- Wyalong
- Murrumbidgee
- Goomeroo
- Wolloway
- Wangary
- Wanilla
- Worrow
- Koppio
- Yankalilla
- Yaranyacka
- Yackamoorundie
- Kaiwaka
- Coomooroo
- Tauranga
- Geelong
- Tongariro
- Kaikoura
- Wakatipu
- Oohipara
- Waitpinga
- Goelwa
- Munno Para
- Nangkita
- Myponga
- Kapunda
- Kooringa
- Penola
- Nangwarry
- Kongorong
- Comaum
- Koolywurtie
- Killanoola
- Naracoorte
- Muloowurtie
- Binnum
- Wallaro
- Wirrega
- Mundoora
- Hauraki
- Rangiriri
- Teawamute
- Taranaki
- Toowoomba
- Goondiwindi
- Jerrilderie
- Whangaroa
- Wollongong
- Woolloomooloo
- Bombola
- Coolgardie
- Bendigo
- Coonamble
- Cootamundra
- Woolgoolga
- Mittagong
- Jamberoo
- Kondoparinga
- Kuitpo
- Tungkillo
- Oukaparinga
- Talunga
- Yatala
- Parawirra
- Moorooroo
- Whangarei
- Woolundunga
- Booleroo
- Pernatty
- Parramatta
- Taroom
- Narrandera
- Deniliquin
- Kawakawa.
It may be best to build the poem now, and make the weather help:
A SWELTERING DAY IN AUSTRALIA.
(To be read soft and low, with the lights turned down.)
The Bombola faints in the hot Bowral tree,
Where fierce Mullengudgery's smothering fires
Far from the breezes of Coolgardie
Burn ghastly and blue as the day expires;
Where fierce Mullengudgery's smothering fires
Far from the breezes of Coolgardie
Burn ghastly and blue as the day expires;
And Murriwillumba complaineth in song
For the garlanded bowers of Woolloomooloo,
And the Ballarat Fly and the lone Wollongong
They dream of the gardens of Jamberoo;
For the garlanded bowers of Woolloomooloo,
And the Ballarat Fly and the lone Wollongong
They dream of the gardens of Jamberoo;
