After All

The brooding ghosts of Australian night

Have gone from the bush and town

My spirit revives in the morning breeze

Died when the sun went down

The river is high and the stream is strong

The grass is green and tall

And I fain would think that this world of

Ours is a good world after all

The light of passion in dreamy eyes

And a page of truth well read

The glorious thrill in a heart grown

Cold of the spirit I thought was dead

A song that goes to a comrade's heart

And a tear of pride let fall

And my soul is strong

And the world to me is a

Grand world after all

Let our enemies go by their old dull tracks

And theirs be the fault or shame

The man is bitter against the world

Who has only himself to blame

Let the darkest side of the past be dark

And only the good recall

For I must believe that the world

My dear is a kind world after all

Well may be that I saw too plain

And it may be I was blind

I'll keep my face to the dawning light

The devil may stand behind

Though the devil may stand behind my back

Till I see his shadow fall

I'll read the light of the morning

Stars of a good world after all

Rest for your eyes are weary girl

You have driven the worst away

The ghost of the man

I might have been is gone from my heart to-day

We'll live for life and the best

It brings as our twilight shadows fall

My heart grows brave and the world

My girl is a good world after all

My heart grows brave and the world

My girl is a good world after all