I wonder who lived here,

I wonder where they went?

Did they make a living,

or were their hopes all spent?

Did they dream of copper,

digging riches from the ground?

They haven’t been forgotten 

for there’s history all around.

Perhaps at night their ghosts

still venture out to roam,

stepping lightly through the gloom

to once again come home.

The old Williams cottage, Blinman, South Australia. Photo by Ginette Pestana