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  • Corryong
    The cattle-lands of Corryong,
      The maiden of the snows
    30 lines
  • An Echo from Africa
    Da ruction happen by Nicko's place
      Las' week, in da deada da night.
    52 lines
  • Echuca
    With wood and wool for Adelaide
      The paddle boats came down
    30 lines
  • The Expert and The Apricot
    The orchardist, with hope aglow,
    Sets out a crop of fruit to grow
    42 lines
  • The Wobble
    Now the Wobble went out on the roaring tide,
    With a dry dog trotting along by its side;
    94 lines
  • The Faithless Fantods
    Bill Barcoo was a station 'and - 'e was a station 'and,
      And grafted all the year like Pharaoh's Jews.
    82 lines
  • Healesville
    Healesville is a smiling lass,
      'Mid her encircling hills,
    38 lines
  • Hoch Der Hausfrau!
    Back to the kicthen, mein Gretchen!
      Back to the scullery, frau!
    25 lines
  • The Hundredth Year
    Not that I'd quarrel with the way
      They celebrates their hundredth year
    42 lines
  • The Incorrigible
    The bad boy of Europe,
      He stands in dire disgrace,
    34 lines
  • Kilts, Ye Ken
    Noo, ye ken, we'll see 'em agen,
      Waggling doon the street,
    25 lines
  • Landlubbers
    I nigh drops dead (the bo'sun said)
      When the gist of things I grip
    38 lines
  • Old Town Types No. 13 - Larrikin Luke
    Luke Gale, the larrikin lad, dwelt in Larrikin Lane,
      A low street, a by-street, right at the edge of the town;
    39 lines
  • The Lean, Brown Man
    There's a big, brown man in the hinterland
      Whom the nation had forgot;
    37 lines
  • Lilydale
    Three hills lead on to Lilydale,
      Where runs the White Horse Road.
    38 lines
  • Limitations
    “Who are these blokes with bulging brows
      I see all o’er the shop?”
    50 lines
  • The Lips Of Ages
    Down thro' the ages these same sticks
    Have played on man their knavish tricks.
    27 lines
  • Old Town Types No. 23 - Little Miss Mix
    In a rather tiny building at the bottom of the street,
    With a green door and a window small and very neat,
    34 lines
  • Melba
    Born to the sun and smiling skies,
      And bird-songs to the morning flung,
    27 lines
  • The Merry Sportsmen
    'Arry an' me is bits of sports;
      When the summer comes around
    52 lines
  • A New Year Thought
    Brother, who on some near morrow
    Makes a pledge conceived in sorrow
    34 lines
  • Mid-Winter Monody
    There's a bleak, black world without,
      And the rain falls fast;
    52 lines
  • Mildura
    Where the sunlight, burning down,
      Lights her luscious orange groves,
    34 lines
  • Old Town Types No. 16 - Mr Tank
    "Twice one are two; twice two are four."
    I can still hear it floating thro' the old school door:
    38 lines
  • Old Town Types No. 21 - Mr Woolin-Wister
    Mr Woolin-Wister was assistant at the store,
    He had an air of breeding, and the kind of clothes he wore
    34 lines
  • Old Town Types No. 3 - Mrs Dibbs
    Mrs Dibbs, the washerwoman, coming down the street,
    Shabby old "elastic-sides" on her funny feet
    34 lines
  • Old Town Types No. 15 - Mrs Felix Donnett
    Mrs Felix Donnett was a lady of renown,
    For ten years her husband was mayor of the town;
    34 lines
  • Old Town Types No. 12 - Mrs Munn, The Nurse
    Mrs Munn, the midwife - Mother Munn they called her --
    Wallowed in the world's woes; sickness ne'er appalled her.
    34 lines
  • Mugga Mugga
                Candidly, I do not hug a
                Wish to go to Mugga Mug
    42 lines
  • ‘Musterin'
    Oh, I've ridden 'em rough an' I've ridden 'em kind,
      Brumbies and prads well-bred.
    34 lines
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