Never
Gone
MOLLIE SCHOLLUM
Up around Beechworth it is big country, big hills,
the bush is wilder and when you look at the horizon
at times you see just a flicker in the corner of your
vision that could be men on horse back, just disappearing
from view.
In this half light
That is not of day
Yet not of night
Our shades still gallop
Racing over hills and plains
In hazy twilight
Man and horse linger
Black against silver sky
Forever surveying
The land that is ours
Gullies and ranges alive
With memories and shadows
Creaking of leather, scent of smoke
Lingering voices drift through tall gums
Here yet not, never truly gone |
Steve
Hart descendant Paul O'Keefe has alerted me to yet
another ridiculous Kelly Gang claim (the latest in a line
of many). Not just content to see Dan escape, this time
around Steve also made a bolt from the Glenrowan Inn
fire (so why was Ned heading back when they had both left?).
Lucky Steve also headed north where he lived a long and
happy life in Queensland under the name of Billy Meade. Apparently
this Meade character confessed about his double identity
on his deathbed in 1938. Well, in that case, it
