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A Fantasy Of War

Henry Lawson
From Australia.

Oh, tell me, God of Battles! Oh, say what is to come!
The King is in his trenches, the millionaire at home;
The Kaiser with his toiling troops, the Czar is at the front....
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Available Languages: English

An Interlude of Peace. The Fairy West

Henry Lawson
I.

We wrote and sang of a bush we never
Had known in youth in the Western land;
Of the dear old homes by the shining river,
The deep, clear creeks and the hills so grand....
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Available Languages: English

An Interlude Of Peace - The Fairy West

Henry Lawson
I.

We wrote and sang of a bush we never
Had known in youth in the Western land;
Of the dear old homes by the shining river,
The deep, clear creeks and the hills so grand....
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Available Languages: English

As far As Your Rifles Cover

Henry Lawson
Do you think, you slaves of a thousand years to poverty, wealth and pride,
You can crush the spirit that has been free in a land that's new and wide?...
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Available Languages: English

A Song For The Sydney Poor or, The Australian Marseillaise

Henry Lawson
Sing the strong, proud song of Labour,
Toss the ringing music high;
Liberty's a nearer neighbour
Than she was in days gone by.
Workmen's weary wives and daughters
Sing the songs of liberty;...
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Available Languages: English

A Voice From The City

Henry Lawson
On western plain and eastern hill
Where once my fancy ranged,
The station hands are riding still
And they are little changed.
But I have lost in London gloom
The glory of the day,...
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Available Languages: English

A Word From The Bards

Henry Lawson
It is New Year's Day and I rise to state that here on the Sydney side
The Bards have commenced to fill out of late and they're showing their binjies with pride...
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Available Languages: English

Bill And Jim Fall Out

Henry Lawson
Bill and Jim are mates no longer, they would scorn the name of mate,
Those two bushmen hate each other with a soul-consuming hate;
Yet erstwhile they were as brothers should be (tho' they never will):...
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Available Languages: English

Bound For The Lord-Knows-Where

Henry Lawson
'Where are you going with your horse and bike,
And the townsfolk still at rest?
Where are you going, with your swag and pack,
And the night still in the West?...
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Available Languages: English

Dan Wasn't Thrown From His Horse

Henry Lawson
They say he was thrown and run over,
But that is sheer nonsense, of course:
I taught him to ride when a kiddy,
And Dan wasn't thrown from his horse.

The horse that Dan rode was a devil,...
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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

Faces In The Street

Henry Lawson
They lie, the men who tell us in a loud decisive tone
That want is here a stranger, and that misery's unknown;
For where the nearest suburb and the city proper meet...
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Available Languages: English

Fall In, My Men, Fall In

Henry Lawson
The short hour's halt is ended,
The red gone from the west,
The broken wheel is mended,
And the dead men laid to rest.
Three days have we retreated
The brave old Curse-and-Grin,...
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Available Languages: English

Fighting Hard

Henry Lawson
Rolling out to fight for England, singing songs across the sea;
Rolling North to fight for England, and to fight for you and me.
Fighting hard for France and England, where the storms of Death are hurled;...
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Available Languages: English

Flag Of The Southern Cross

Henry Lawson
Sons of Australia, be loyal and true to her,
Fling out the flag of the Southern Cross!
Sing a loud song to be joyous and new to her,
Fling out the flag of the Southern Cross!...
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Available Languages: English

For All the Land to See (A Song Of The Tools)

Henry Lawson
The cross-cut and the crowbar cross, and hang them on the wall,
And make a greenhide rack to fit the wedges and the maul,
The 'done' long-handled shovel and the thong-bound axe that fell,...
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Available Languages: English

For'ard

Henry Lawson
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep,
For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away like sheep,,
They are trav'lers for the most part in a straight 'n' honest path;...
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Available Languages: English

For Australia

Henry Lawson
Now, with the wars of the world begun, they'll listen to you and me,
Now while the frightened nations run to the arms of democracy,
Now, when our blathering fools are scared, and the years have proved us right,...
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Available Languages: English

Foreign Lands

Henry Lawson
You may roam the wide seas over, follow, meet, and cross the sun,
Sail as far as ships can sail, and travel far as trains can run;
You may ride and tramp wherever range or plain or sea expands,...
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Available Languages: English

For He Was A Jolly Good Fellow

Henry Lawson
They cheered him from the wharf, it was a glorious day:
His hand went to his scarf, his thoughts were far away.
Oh, he was 'Jolly Good', they sang it long and loud,...
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Available Languages: English
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