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Book: Backblock Ballads and Later Verses

1918

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  • The Austral-Aise
    Fellers of Australier,
      Blokes an' coves an' coots,
    88 lines, 1 comment
  • The Bridge Across the Crick
    Joseph Jones and Peter Dawking
          Strove in an election fight;
    68 lines
  • Wheat
    "Sowin' things an' growin' things, an' watchin' of 'em grow;
    That's the game," my father said, an' father ought to know.
    72 lines
  • 'Paw'
    Ai've just obteened a pension for mai Paw.
    And you should hev seen the people that were theah.
    83 lines
  • The Bleating of the Sheep
    Lo, I listened to the bleating of the sheep --
                Squatters' sheep --
    98 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
  • Culture and Cops
    Five nights agone I lay at rest
      On my suburban couch.
    181 lines
  • 'Got-a-Fag'
    He was tall and tough and stringy, with the shoulders of an axeman,
    Broad and loose, with greenhide muscles, and a hand shaped to th
    79 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
  • The Builders
    Behold, I built a fowlhouse in my yard!
      Two months agone the great work was begun,
    96 lines
  • The Lovers
    One idle hour she sought to see
      Whose image 'twas he cherished so
    28 lines
  • A Guide for Poits
    (Compiled by the Sentimental Bloke)
    I ain't no verse-'og.  When I busts in song
    102 lines
  • Work or Reflection
    Now, I always have preserved a certain attitude
      Quite definite in reference to Work --
    58 lines
  • Langwidge
    "The flamin' cows!" 'e ses; 'e did, an' worse;
      'Twas 'orrible the langwidge that 'e used.
    54 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
  • The March
    In early, prehistoric days, before the reign of Man,
    When neolithic Nature fashioned things upon a plan
    73 lines
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