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  • Mallee Wife
    Home's best (she said), and the tale
    Of the hungering soil and the flail
    52 lines
  • Wisdom after Victory
    Now comes to an end all our dolorous drifting;
    Clouds pass away and depression is lifting.
    34 lines
  • The Faith of Old George Jones [2]
    Long faces, hangin’ lips an’ eyes without a smile,
      Meegrims an’ mulligrubs, mournfulness an’ moans,
    25 lines
  • The Fall of Fitzmickle
    Mr Fitzmickle, the martinet,
      Rules with an iron rod
    34 lines
  • We Mean to Say
    We mean to say, it never has been granted
      That anyone but England could decide,
    31 lines
  • An Old Man Muses
    Can it be I -- this Hindenburg, deferring
      To demagogues, catch phrases, lucky charms
    34 lines
  • The Grey Fantail
    The bushmen call me "Cranky Fan,"
      Because my strange erratic flight
    34 lines
  • Heigh, Ho!
    Heigh, ho!  But they're talking, talking,
    As the cold, hard streets we're walking
    33 lines
  • Hoch Der Hausfrau!
    Back to the kicthen, mein Gretchen!
      Back to the scullery, frau!
    25 lines
  • Important People
    The success of the Scout movement throughout the whole world has been amply proven by the present triumphant gathering in Melbourne.
    35 lines
  • Kilts, Ye Ken
    Noo, ye ken, we'll see 'em agen,
      Waggling doon the street,
    25 lines
  • Lotsertime
    Aw, chuck the mail bags over there,
          It's great to have 'em brought by air;
    34 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 Listening Week
    This is the listening week of the year --
          Listening-in.
    34 lines
  • A New Year Thought
    Brother, who on some near morrow
    Makes a pledge conceived in sorrow
    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
  • Music In The Chair
    SCENE: Political meeting of future.
    CHAIRMAN, rising, calls for silence.
    73 lines
  • Antarctic Pioneers
    Because some unimportant man
      In politics talks loud and high,
    34 lines
  • Arch Criminal
    When muddled mentors take the stage
      To gird against our erring,
    38 lines
  • The Automatic Umpire
    Now, Plugger Palook was a man in a thousand --
      (Said Horace the Howler) not one of yer fools.
    34 lines
  • Ballad of Lieges Loyal
    Son of our King: When yoemen sailed
      From Britain to expand her sway,
    34 lines
  • Bendigo
    A golden maid whose golden voice
      Calls to the northern lands,
    43 lines
  • Bird - Seed
    Old Pete Parraday, he isn't very wise --
    Or so the local gossips say -- They love to criticise
    34 lines
  • Caesar Redivivus
    In the olive groves of Italy
      Men minds are all aflame;
    34 lines
  • Cherry
    "Some I got with amber stems an' some with silver bands,
    Bent ones an' straight ones an' all sorts o' brands.
    43 lines
  • Cobbers and Quids
    Is youth not less pedantic, less absurd,
      Less prone to value things of little worth
    25 lines
  • The Dinkum Aussie Block
    What have we missed?  Now he returns no more
    We are left with but our blindness to deplore,
    25 lines
  • Distrust Appearances
    He came into the bird-shop where I stood --
      A hulking giant, monumental, grim,
    25 lines
  • The Drama
    Ah, well, the thing that lived lives on,
      And who are we to say it nay?
    26 lines
  • Drapers Dummies
    What do they dream about standing there
      In the windows facing the street?
    34 lines
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