Ben Boyd's Tower

Henry Lawson, 1910

      Ben Boyd's Tower is watching —
             Watching o'er the sea;
      Ben Boyd's Tower is waiting
             For her and me.

             We do not know the day,
             We do not know the hour,
             But we know that we shall meet
             By Ben Boyd's Tower.

      Moonlight peoples Boyd Tower,
             Mystic are its walls;
      Lightly dance the lovers
             In its haunted halls.

             Ben Boyd's Tower is watching —
             Watching o'er the foam;
             Ben Boyd's Tower is waiting
             Till the "Wanderer" comes home.

      O! he lay above us —
             High above the surf —
      Finger-nails and toe-caps
             Digging in the turf.

             We do not know the day,
             We do not know the hour,
             But Two and Two shall meet again
             By Ben Boyd's Tower.

      There's an ancient dame in Eden —
             Basket on her arm —
      And she goes down the Main Street
             From the old, old farm.

             Hood drawn on her forehead —
             Withered dame and grey —
             She never looks on Boyd Tower
             Out across the Bay.

      Bright eyes in the ballroom,
             Coquetting with two,
      Just for love of mischief,
             As a girl will do.
      A quarrel in the bar-room —
             All within the hour —
      And four men rode from Boyd Town
             To Ben Boyd's Tower.