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Born in June 17, 1867 / Died in September 2, 1922 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Henry Lawson

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As far as your Rifles Cover

... Till the future is proved, and the past is bribed from the son of the land's dead lover – ...

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Ben Duggan

... Roll up at Talbragar!' At all the shanties round the place they'd heard his horse's tramp, ...

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Past Carin'

... Through childbirth, sickness, hurt, and blight, ...

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The Loveable Characters

... They were all forty-five and were orphans, they said, ...

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The Drover's Sweetheart

... He'd come through miles of slush and mud, ...

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When the Children Come Home

... Yet she says: `They might come when the shearing is done, ...

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Australia's Peril

... ke your own cloth, machines, and guns!Clear out the Calico Jimmy, the nigger, the Chow, and his pals ...

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On the March

... Oh! I wish the storm had found me more than fifteen years ago! Bear the olden banner still! ...

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In the Storm that is to come

... cricket match!There's a gutter of mud where there spread a flood from the land-long western creeks, ...

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The City Bushman

... True, the bush `hath moods and changes' -- and the bushman hath 'em, too, ...

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Republican Pioneers

... Our cry of "Australia only"! And we'll sleep sound in Australian ground, ...

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To Be Amused

... Might, aye, have fair girls for their lusts! With land and life and race at stake – ...

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The Never-Never Country

... Your own land is the best! And, lest at ease I should forget ...

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The Men We Might Have Been

... Those friends who think they know me -- ...

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Middleton's Rouseabout

... In the land of cattle and sheep, ...