"Windy Gap" is a poem by Australian poet David Campbell.
A shepherd, moving his sheep through Windy Gap, is transfixed by a hawk and a magpie who seem to bring the world around him into sharper focus.
In his commentary on the poem in 60 Classic Australian Poems Geoff Page noted "You can almost see the Akubra, the Drizabone and the R. M. Williams boots; you can practically smell the horse sweat though none of these is mentioned.
You can feel seventeenth- and nineteenth-century English verse in the background, but you don’t doubt for a minute it's Australian.
"[3] After its initial publication in The Bulletin in 1951, the poem was reprinted as follows: