| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 3. Four Score |
| | | By Sir Henry Parkes |
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| I COUNT the mercifullest part of all | |
| God’s mercies, in this coil of eighty years, | |
| Is that no sense of being disappears | |
| Or fails,—I see the signal, hear the call,— | |
| Can calmly estimate the rise and fall | 5 |
| Of moth-like mortals in this ‘vale of tears’, | |
| And all His glorious works, the heavenly spheres, | |
| The ocean, and the earth’s unyielding wall | |
| Remain for thought and wonder! Marvellous | |
| Is God’s creation, with its endless space, | 10 |
| And those inhabited, bright worlds, by law | |
| Divinely govern’d, as they shine on us, | |
| Still keeping through all time their ordered place: | |
| I bow my head in rapture and in awe! | |
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