Saltbush Bill’s Second Flight (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large, That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with ...
The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large, That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with ...
"Where 'ave you been this week or more, 'Aven't seen you about the war'? Thought perhaps you was at the ...
With eyes that searched in the dark, Peering along the line, Stood the grim Scotsman, Hector Clark, Driver of "Forty-nine". ...
Men fight all shapes and sizes as the racing horses run, And no man knows his courage till he stands ...
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering ...
By the far Samoan shore, Where the league-long rollers pour All the wash of the Pacific on the coral-guarded bay, ...
The drought is down on field and flock, The river-bed is dry; And we must shift the starving stock Before ...
I had spent the night in the watch-house -- My head was the size of three -- So I went ...
This is the story the stockman told On the cattle-camp, when the stars were bright; The moon rose up like ...
The shades of night had fallen at last, When through the house a shadow passed, That once had been the ...
Now is the law of the Overland that all in the West obey -- A man must cover with travelling ...
I say 'e isn't Remorse! 'Ow do I know? Saw 'im on Riccarton course Two year ago! Think I'd forget ...
The roving breezes come and go On Kiley's Run, The sleepy river murmurs low, And far away one dimly sees ...
No soft-skinned Durham steers are they, No Devons plump and red, But brindled, black and iron-grey That mark the mountain-bred; ...
Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee; To-day, you see, is Christmas Day, and so it's up ...
'Tis strange that in a land so strong So strong and bold in mighty youth, We have no poet's voice ...
"I'll introduce a friend!" he said, "And if you've got a vacant pen You'd better take him in the shed ...
'Twas Driver Smith of Battery A was anxious to see a fight; He thought of the Transvaal all the day, ...
Beyond the land where Leichhardt went, Beyond Sturt's Western track, The rolling tide of change has sent Some strange J.P.'s ...
Oh, Mulligan's bar was the deuce of a place To drink, and to fight, and to gamble and race; The ...
It was shearing time at the Myall Lake, And then rose the sound through the livelong day Of the constant ...
So you're back from up the country, Mister Lawson, where you went, And you're cursing all the business in a ...
The Boers were down on Kimberley with siege and Maxim gun; The Boers were down on Kimberley, their numbers ten ...
The stranger came from Narromine and made his little joke-- "They say we folks in Narromine are narrow-minded folk. But ...
Another search for Leichhardt's tomb, Though fifty years have fled Since Leichhardt vanished in the gloom, Our one Illustrious Dead! ...
"You come and see me, boys," he said; "You'll find a welcome and a bed And whisky any time you ...
In the good old days when the Army's ways were simple and unrefined, With a stock to keep their chins ...
The daylight is dying Away in the west, The wild birds are flying in silence to rest; In leafage and ...
We read in the press that Lord Northcote is here To take up Lord Tennyson's mission. 'Tis pleasant to find ...
As I lie at rest on a patch of clover In the Western Park when the day is done. I ...
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