What Have the Cavalry Done? (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
What have the cavalry done? Cantered and trotted about, Routin' the enemy out, Causin' the beggars to run! And we ...
What have the cavalry done? Cantered and trotted about, Routin' the enemy out, Causin' the beggars to run! And we ...
By the far Samoan shore, Where the league-long rollers pour All the wash of the Pacific on the coral-guarded bay, ...
I say 'e isn't Remorse! 'Ow do I know? Saw 'im on Riccarton course Two year ago! Think I'd forget ...
We have sung the song of the droving days, Of the march of the travelling sheep; By silent stages and ...
'Twas Driver Smith of Battery A was anxious to see a fight; He thought of the Transvaal all the day, ...
Oh, Mulligan's bar was the deuce of a place To drink, and to fight, and to gamble and race; The ...
So you're back from up the country, Mister Lawson, where you went, And you're cursing all the business in a ...
Another search for Leichhardt's tomb, Though fifty years have fled Since Leichhardt vanished in the gloom, Our one Illustrious Dead! ...
The Editor wrote his political screed In ink that was fainter and fainter; He rose to the call of his ...
The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large, That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with ...
This is the dam that Keele built. This is the stream that brought the water to fill the dam that ...
Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in, Mister Lawson, Mister Dyson, and the others of their ...
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering ...
This is the story the stockman told On the cattle-camp, when the stars were bright; The moon rose up like ...
The run of Billabong-go-dry Is just beyond Lime Burner's Gap; Its waterhole and tank supply Is excellent -- upon the ...
Did you ever hear tell of Chili? I was readin' the other day Of President Balmaceda and of how he ...
Here in my mountain home, On rugged hills and steep, I sit and watch you come, O Riverinia Sheep! You ...
'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze; He turned away the good old horse that served him ...
The railway rattled and roared and swung With jolting and bumping trucks. The sun, like a billiard red ball, hung ...
They held a polo meeting at a little country town, And all the local sportsmen came to win themselves renown. ...
There was movement at the station, for the word has passed around That the colt from old Regret had got ...
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering ...
As I lie at rest on a patch of clover In the Western Park when the day is done. I ...
"Only a pound," said the auctioneer, "Only a pound; and I'm standing here Selling this animal, gain or loss -- ...
The Boastful Crow and the Laughing Jack Were telling tales of the outer back: "I've just been travelling far and ...
'Twas in scientific circles That the great Professor Brown Had a world-wide reputation As a writer of renown. He had ...
'TWAS to a small, up-country town, When we were boys at school, There came a circus with a clown, Likewise ...
'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog By the troopers of the upper Murray side, ...
Wargeilah town is very small, There's no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just ...
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