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    Three young sisters went to play by a river near their home called Walloon. While admiring the lilies in the water, the two younger sisters were pulled under and drowned, while the oldest sister made a sacrifice to try and save them but was unable to. The deaths of the young girls were a great sorrow to the community, especially their father who worked as a railway lengthman nearby. The poem reflects on how the innocent children were attracted to the beauty of the lilies without understanding the danger, and hopes the purity and innocence of the young girls will be remembered through the legend of the Babies of Walloon.

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    Three young sisters went to play by a river near their home called Walloon. While admiring the lilies in the water, the two younger sisters were pulled under and drowned, while the oldest sister made a sacrifice to try and save them but was unable to. The deaths of the young girls were a great sorrow to the community, especially their father who worked as a railway lengthman nearby. The poem reflects on how the innocent children were attracted to the beauty of the lilies without understanding the danger, and hopes the purity and innocence of the young girls will be remembered through the legend of the Babies of Walloon.

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    Babies of Walloon Poem

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    Three young sisters went to play by a river near their home called Walloon. While admiring the lilies in the water, the two younger sisters were pulled under and drowned, while the oldest sister made a sacrifice to try and save them but was unable to. The deaths of the young girls were a great sorrow to the community, especially their father who worked as a railway lengthman nearby. The poem reflects on how the innocent children were attracted to the beauty of the lilies without understanding the danger, and hopes the purity and innocence of the young girls will be remembered through the legend of the Babies of Walloon.

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    The Babies of Walloon

    He was lengthman on the railway, and his station scarce deserved That pre-eminence in sorrow of the Majesty he served, But as dear to him and precious were the gifts reclaimed so soon Were the workmans little daughters who were buried near Walloon. Speak their names in tones that linger, just as tho you held them dear; There are eyes to which the mention of those names will bring a tear. Little Kate and Bridget, straying in an autumn afternoon, Were attracted by the lilies in the water of Walloon. All is dark to us. The angels sing perhaps in Paradise Of the younger sisters danger, and the elders sacrifice; But the facts were hidden from us, when the soft light from the moon Glistened on the water-lilies oer the babies at Walloon. Ah! The children love the lilies, while we elders are inclined To the flowers that have poison for the body and the mind. Better for the strongly human to have done with life as soon, Better perish for a lily like the Babies of Walloon. For they gather flowers early on the river far away, Where the everlasting lilies keep their purity for aye, And while summer brings our lilies to the run and the lagoon May our children keep the legend of the Babies of Walloon.

    Henry Lawson 1891

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