| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 188. The Mountain Road |
| | | By Enid Derham |
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| COMING down the mountain road | |
| Light of heart and all alone, | |
| I caught from every rill that flowed | |
| A rapture of its own. | |
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| Heart and mind sang on together, | 5 |
| Rhymes began to meet and run | |
| In the windy mountain weather | |
| And the winter sun. | |
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| Clad in freshest light and sweet | |
| Far and far the city lay | 10 |
| With her suburbs at her feet | |
| Round the laughing bay. | |
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| Like an eagle lifted high | |
| Half the radiant world I scanned, | |
| Till the deep unclouded sky | 15 |
| Circled sea and land. | |
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| No more was thought a weary load, | |
| Older comforts stirred within, | |
| Coming down the mountain road | |
| The earth and I were kin. | 20 |
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