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The Chinese Miners.(Poem)
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July 01, 2004 |
Berry, Robert James |
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THE CHINESE MINERS
spoke a dry dialect. Dry like otago's gravel beds.
If you ever heard them
above the badland swagger of other diggers
who sited them out of the settlement,
created the celestials you might deride
on main street
diggers of sludge channels, drudgers
for the work gangs, planters of
colour in arrowtown--the poplars
red as fireworks in spring. Now they occupy
an ...
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