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Above Eurunderee

Henry Lawson
There are scenes in the distance where beauty is not,
On the desolate flats where gaunt appletrees rot.
Where the brooding old ridge rises up to the breeze
From his dark lonely gullies of stringy-bark trees,...
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Australian Engineers

Henry Lawson
Ah, well! but the case seems hopeless, and the pen might write in vain;
The people gabble of old things over and over again.
For the sake of the sleek importer we slave with the pick and the shears,...
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Captain Von Esson Of The 'Sebastopol'

Henry Lawson
Of his beauty, or stature, or colour of hair I hadn't the slightest hint,
But he comes to me as a little man, with a scrubby beard and a squint,
With a heart somewhere if it wasn't there, and an Irish terrier nose,...
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Eureka

Henry Lawson
Roll up, Eureka's heroes, on that grand Old Rush afar,
For Lalor's gone to join you in the big camp where you are;
Roll up and give him welcome such as only diggers can,...
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Eurunderee

Henry Lawson
There are scenes in the distance where beauty is not,
On the desolate flats where gaunt appletrees rot.
Where the brooding old ridge rises up to the breeze
From his dark lonely gullies of stringy-bark trees,...
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Available Languages: English

Every Man Should Have A Rifle

Henry Lawson
So I sit and write and ponder, while the house is deaf and dumb,
Seeing visions "over yonder" of the war I know must come.
In the corner, not a vision, but a sign for coming days...
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Available Languages: English

Everyone's Friend

Henry Lawson
'Nobody's enemy save his own',
(What shall it be in the end?),
Still by the nick-name he is known,
'Everyone's Friend.'
'Nobody's Enemy' stands alone
While he has money to lend,...
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Available Languages: English

Give Yourself A Show (New Years Eve)

Henry Lawson
To my fellow sinners all, who, in hope and doubt,
Through the Commonwealth to-night watch the Old Year out,
New Year's Resolutions are jerry-built I know,
But I want to say to you, 'Give yourselves a show'.
...
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He's Gone To England For A Wife

Henry Lawson
He's gone to England for a wife
Among the ladies there;
And yet I know a lass he deemed
The rarest of the rare.
He's gone to England for a wife;
And rich and proud is he....
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Available Languages: English

Lake Eliza

Henry Lawson
The sand was heavy on our feet,
A Christmas sky was o'er us,
And half a mile through dust and heat
Lake 'Liza lay before us.
'You'll have a long and heavy tramp',
So said the last adviser,...
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Stand by the Engines

Henry Lawson
On the moonlighted decks there are children at play,
While smoothly the steamer is holding her way;
And the old folks are chatting on deck-seats and chairs,
And the lads and the lassies go strolling in pairs....
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Available Languages: English

Sweethearts Wait On Every Shore

Henry Lawson
She sits beside the tinted tide,
That's reddened by the tortured sand;
And through the East, to ocean wide,
A vessel sails from sight of land.

But she will wait and watch in vain,...
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The Ballad Of The Elder Son

Henry Lawson
A son of elder sons I am,
Whose boyhood days were cramped and scant,
Through ages of domestic sham
And family lies and family cant.
Come, elder brothers mine, and bring...
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Available Languages: English

The Empty Glass

Henry Lawson
There are three lank bards in a borrowed room,
Ah! The number is one too few,
They have deemed their home and the bars unfit
For the thing that they have to do....
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Available Languages: English

The Fight At Eureka Stockade

Henry Lawson
"Was I at Eureka?" His figure was drawn to a youthful height,
And a flood of proud recollections made the fire in his grey eyes bright;
With pleasure they lighted and glisten'd, tho' the digger was grizzled and old,...
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The Gathering Of The Brown-Eyed

Henry Lawson
The brown eyes came from Asia, where all mystery is true,
Ere the masters of Soul Secrets dreamed of hazel, grey, and blue;
And the Brown Eyes came to Egypt, which is called the gypsies' home,...
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The God-Forgotten Election

Henry Lawson
PAT M'DURMER brought the tidings to the town of God-Forgotten :
'There are lively days before ye, commin Parlymint's dissolved!'
And the boys were all excited, for the State, of course, was 'rotten,'...
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Those Foreign Engineers

Henry Lawson
Old Ivan McIvanovitch, with knitted brow of care,
Has climbed up from the engine-room to get a breath of air;
He slowly wipes the grease and sweat from hairy face and neck....
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Available Languages: English

To 'Doc' Wylie (An Eccentric Bush Doctor)

Henry Lawson
Though doctors may your name discard
And say you physicked vilely,
I would I were as good a bard
As you a doctor, Wylie!

How often, when your skill subdued
The fever ranging highly,...
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Available Languages: English
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