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"Native Poetry"
" Nung - Ngun
Nge a runba [worumy?] bulkirra [umbilinto?] [bulworra'?]
Pital burra [kulpan?] wirripang buntoa
Nung Ngnun
Nge a runba turrama [berrambo?], burra Kilkoa',
Kurri wi, raratoa yelea waleiko,
Yulo [Moane?], woinyo, birung pora buleiko
Nung Ngnun
Nge a rumba Kan wullung, makoro, kokein
[Inip?] - pa-rai, kekul, wimbi murr ring kirrika,
Nge a runba mura ká - en kulbun kulbun
murrung."
Thus translated & verified by Miss E. H. Dunlop of
Mulla [Villa ?] S.S.W.( in a newspaper )
,, Our home is the Gibber Gunyah,
Where hill joins hill on high,
Where the [turunna?] and barrambo
Like sleeping serpents lie ; -
And the rushing of wings as the Wangas pass
Sweeps the Wallaby's [print ?] from the glistening grass (Qun