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Book: Backblock Ballads and Other Verses

1913

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  • Hopeful Hawkins
    Hawkins wasn't in the swim at all in Dingo Flat,
    And to bait him was our chiefest form of bliss;
    56 lines, 1 comment
  • The Bridge Across the Crick
    Joseph Jones and Peter Dawking
          Strove in an election fight;
    68 lines
  • 'Urry
    Now, Ma-til-der! Ain't cher dressed yet? I declare, the girl ain't up!
    Last as ushul. Move yerself, you sleepy'-ead!
    71 lines, 1 comment
  • A Spring Song
    The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat;
      Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul;
    103 lines
  • Doreen
    "I wish't yeh menat it, Bill."  Oh, 'ow me 'eart
      Went out to 'er that evnin' on the beach.
    73 lines
  • The Boon of Discontent
      Once an anthropoidal ape,
      Hairy, savage, strange of shape,
    92 lines
  • Brothers O' Mine
    Brothers o' mine, brothers o' mine,
    All the world over, from pole to pole --
    101 lines
  • Brown's Tram
    A city clerk was Henry Brown,
    Whose suburb knew nor tram nor train;
    78 lines
  • The Chase of Ages
    Light of my lives! Is the time not yet?
      Lo, I've brooded on a star
    70 lines
  • Cow
    Aw, go write yer tinklin' jingle, an' yer pretty phrases mingle,
    Fer the mamby-pamby girl, all fluffy frill an' shinin' silk.
    89 lines
  • The Eternal Circle
    Now, a visitor from somewhere right outside this Mundane Ball --
    Do not ask me where he came from, for that point's not clear at all
    128 lines
  • An Old Master
    We were cartin' lathes and palin's from the slopes of Mount St. Leonard,
    With our axles near the road-bed and the mud as stiff as gl
    63 lines
  • Yarra Flats
    A spieler came to Yarra Glen upon the Yarra flats;
    He wore a suit of noisy cheeks and something cute in hats.
    54 lines
  • A Ballad for Elderly Kids
    Now this is the ballad of Jeremy Jones,
      And likewise of Bobadil Brown,
    133 lines
  • Roamin' Free
    The miser sits beside his hoard,
      The lover tarries by his bride,
    52 lines
  • Langwidge
    "The flamin' cows!" 'e ses; 'e did, an' worse;
      'Twas 'orrible the langwidge that 'e used.
    54 lines
  • Wanderers Lost
    Oh, we are the phantoms of rovers lost --
      See how the mocking mirages play!
    34 lines
  • The Homeward Track
    Once a year we lumber southward with the clip from Yarradee;
    Spell the bullocks in the township while we run our yearly spree.
    25 lines
  • Barley Grass
    Wavin' corn upon the hillside,
    Twinklin' daisies on the rise,
    52 lines
  • The March
    In early, prehistoric days, before the reign of Man,
    When neolithic Nature fashioned things upon a plan
    73 lines
  • The Bore
    Ah, prithee friend, if thou has ought
      Of love and kind regard for me
    43 lines
  • Weary
    Aw, I'm sick o' the whole darn human race,
      An' I'm sick o' this mundane ball;
    43 lines
  • The High Priest
    Nay, why do foolish politicians strive
      To win a fleeting popularity?
    52 lines
  • Suburbia - A Yearn
    O man with a Position, prithee tell,
    How is't you mould your sal'ried life so well;
    68 lines
  • Son of a Fool
    Gyved and chained in his father's home,
      He toiled 'neath a conqueror's rule;
    99 lines
  • Moonlight
    I love you, dear, o' morn and moon.
      I love your ev'ry mood and guise;
    19 lines
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