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 ...
Now the stock have started dying, for the Lord has sent a drought; But we're sick of prayers and Providence ...
Now this was what Macpherson told While waiting in the stand; A reckless rider, over-bold, The only man with hands ...
Now this was what Macpherson told While waiting in the stand; A reckless rider, over-bold, The only man with hands ...
The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large, That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with ...
Far to the Northward there lies a land, A wonderful land that the winds blow over, And none may fathom ...
The drought is down on field and flock, The river-bed is dry; And we must shift the starving stock Before ...
The roving breezes come and go On Kiley's Run, The sleepy river murmurs low, And far away one dimly sees ...
Oh, the weary, weary journey on the trek, day after day, With sun above and silent veldt below; And our ...
A man once read with mind surprised Of the way that people were "hypnotised"; By waving hands you produced, forsooth, ...
It was shearing time at the Myall Lake, And then rose the sound through the livelong day Of the constant ...
When Ironbark the turtle came to Anthony's lagoon The hills were hid behind a mist of equinoctal rain, The ripple ...
There was movement at the station, for the word has passed around That the colt from old Regret had got ...
Kanzo Makame, the diver, sturdy and small Japanee, Seeker of pearls and of pearl-shell down in the depths of the ...
This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, ...
As I lie at rest on a patch of clover In the Western Park when the day is done. I ...
Wargeilah town is very small, There's no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just ...
Out where the grey streams glide, Sullen and deep and slow, And the alligators slide From the mud to the ...
Did you ever hear tell of Chili? I was readin' the other day Of President Balmaceda and of how he ...
The grey gull sat on a floating whale, On a floating whale sat he, And he told his tale of ...
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
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