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In the weltering hell of the Moorooroo plain
The Yatala Wangary withers and dies,
And the Worrow Wanilla, demented with pain,
To the Woolgoolga woodlands
Despairingly flies.
- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
Attribution: Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. “A Sweltering Din Australia,” consisting of Australian place-names, ch. 36, Following the Equator (1897).

Categories: Australia And The Australians, Author

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