The Travelling Post Office Comments

Ballad form poem that moves from the slow and laconic 'sleepy rivers' to the 'rock and ridge and riverside' as the letter from the old man to his son travels in search of Conroy's sheep 'along the Castlereigh'. A view of the changing nature of the 'bush' as the young man leaves the traditions of his home in search of something not so 'dull and slow'. Longing and sadness punctuate the poem, but there is also a pace of looking forward, moving on.