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The Chinese Miners.(Poem)

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| July 01, 2004 | Berry, Robert James | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
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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