Song of the Future (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'Tis strange that in a land so strong So strong and bold in mighty youth, We have no poet's voice ...
'Tis strange that in a land so strong So strong and bold in mighty youth, We have no poet's voice ...
'Twas Driver Smith of Battery A was anxious to see a fight; He thought of the Transvaal all the day, ...
The drought is down on field and flock, The river-bed is dry; And we must shift the starving stock Before ...
Beyond the land where Leichhardt went, Beyond Sturt's Western track, The rolling tide of change has sent Some strange J.P.'s ...
The sheep were shorn and the wool went down At the time of our local racing; And I'd earned a ...
'Twas in the days of front attack; This glorious truth we'd yet to learn it -- That every "front" has ...
The Boers were down on Kimberley with siege and Maxim gun; The Boers were down on Kimberley, their numbers ten ...
A land, as far as the eye can see, where the waving grasses grow Or the plains are blackened and ...
As I lie at rest on a patch of clover In the Western Park when the day is done. I ...
On Western plains, where shade is not, 'Neath summer skies of cloudless blue, Where all is dry and all is ...
The long day passes with its load of sorrow: In slumber deep I lay me down to rest until tomorrow ...
The Honourable M. T. Nutt About the bush did jog. Till, passing by a settler's hut, He stopped and bought ...
ALL of us play our very best game- Any other time. Golf or billiards, it's all the same- Any other ...
"HALT! Who goes there?" The sentry's call Rose on the midnight air Above the noises of the camp, The roll ...
The chorus frogs in the big lagoon Would sing their songs to the silvery moon. Tenor singers were out of ...
The Mountains A land of sombre, silent hills, where mountain cattle go By twisted tracks, on sidelings deep, where giant ...
The Boers were down on Kimberley with siege and Maxim gun; The Boers were down on Kimberley, their numbers ten ...
"He ought to be home," said the old man, "without there's something amiss. He only went to the Two-mile -- ...
You talk of riders on the flat, of nerve and pluck and pace -- Not one in fifty has the ...
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