The Bland

The mighty rolling western plains are very fair to see.
Where, waving to the passing breeze, the silver myalls stand.
But fairer are the giant hills, all rugged through they be
From which the two great rivers rise that run along the Bland.

A.B. Paterson., The Land, February 7, 1930 (an excerpt from The Wind’s Message, Snowy River, October 1895)