Dark over the face of Nature sublime! Reign'd tyranny, warfare, and every crime; The world a desert'no oasis green A man-loving soul on its surface had seen; Then mercy above a mandate sent forth...
We read in the press that Lord Northcote is here To take up Lord Tennyson's mission. 'Tis pleasant to find they have sent us a Peer, And a man of exalted position....
The new chum's polo pony was the smartest pony yet, The owner backed it for the Cup for all that he could get. The books were laying fives to one, in tenners; and you bet He was on it. ...
The boys had come back from the races All silent and down on their luck; They'd backed 'em, straight out and for places, But never a winner they's struck. They lost their good money on Slogan,...
We often hear men boast about the land which gave them birth, And each one thinks his native land the fairest spot on earth; In beauty, riches, power, no land can his surpass;...
The big white English swan, escaped from captivity, found himself swimming in an Australian waterhole fringed with giant gum trees. In one of the lower forks of a gum tree sat a placid ound-eyed elderly gentleman apparently thi...
The shearers sat in the firelight, hearty and hale and strong, After the hard day's shearing, passing the joke along: The "ringer" that shore a hundred, as they never were shorn before,...