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And What Have You To Say

Henry Lawson
I mind the days when ladies fair
Helped on my overcoat,
And tucked the silken handkerchief
About my precious throat;
They used to see the poet's soul
In every song I wrote.
...
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Brother, You'll Take My Hand

Henry Lawson
Not to the sober and staid,
Leading a quiet life,
But to men whose paths are laid
Ever through storm and strife,
Here is a song from me,
Sent to the tragic West,
Message of sympathy...
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Bush Hay

Henry Lawson
The stamp of Scotland is on his face,
But he sailed to the South a lad,
And he does not think of the black bleak hills
And the bitter hard youth he had;
He thinks of a nearer and dearer past...
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By Hut, Homestead And Shearing Shed,

Henry Lawson
By hut, homestead and shearing shed,
By railroad, coach and track,
By lonely graves where rest the dead,
Up-Country and Out-Back:
To where beneath the clustered stars
The dreamy plains expand.
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Cameron's Heart

Henry Lawson
The diggings were just in their glory when Alister Cameron came,
With recommendations, he told me, from friends and a parson `at hame';
He read me his recommendations, he called them a part of his plant,...
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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

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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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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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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Hannah Thomburn

Henry Lawson
They lifted her out of a story
Too sordid and selfish by far,
They left me the innocent glory
Of love that was pure as a star;
They left me all guiltless of 'evil'...
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Available Languages: English

Heed Not!

Henry Lawson
Heed not the cock-sure tourist,
Seeing with English eyes;
Stroked at the banquet table
Still, with the old stock lies,
Pet of a social circle,
Guest in a garden fair,...
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Available Languages: English

He Had So Much Work To Do

Henry Lawson
Tell a simple little story of a settler in the West,
Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never rest
While the sun shines, and they often work in rainy weather, too:...
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Available Languages: English

He Mourned His Master

Henry Lawson
INTRODUCTION

The theme is ancient as the hills,
With all their prehistoric glory;
But yet of Corney and his friend,
We've often longed to tell the story;
And should we jar the reader's ear,...
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Here Died

Henry Lawson
There's many a schoolboy's bat and ball that are gathering dust at home,
For he hears a voice in the future call, and he trains for the war to come;...
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Here's Luck

Henry Lawson
Old Time is tramping close to-day, you hear his bluchers fall,
A mighty change is on the way, an' God protect us all;
Some dust'll fly from beery coats, at least it's been declared....
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Available Languages: English

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

How The Land Was Won

Henry Lawson
The future was dark and the past was dead
As they gazed on the sea once more,
But a nation was born when the immigrants said
"Good-bye!" as they stepped ashore!
In their loneliness they were parted thus...
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Available Languages: English

Hymn Of The Reformers

Henry Lawson
By the bodies and minds and souls that rot in a common sty
In the city's offal-holes, where the dregs of its horrors lie;
By the prayers that bubble out, but never ascend to God,...
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Available Languages: English

Interlude - Callaghan's Hotel

Henry Lawson
There's the same old coaching stable that was used by Cobb and Co.,
And the yard the coaches stood in more than sixty years ago;
And the public-private parlour, where they serve the passing swell,...
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Available Languages: English

Interlude. Callaghan's Hotel

Henry Lawson
There's the same old coaching stable that was used by Cobb and Co.,
And the yard the coaches stood in more than sixty years ago;
And the public-private parlour, where they serve the passing swell,...
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Available Languages: English
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