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  • Middleton's Rouseabout
    Tall and freckled and sandy,
    Face of a country lout;
    35 lines
  • When Your Pants Begin to Go
    When you wear a cloudy collar and a shirt that isn't white,
        And you cannot sleep for thinking how you'll reach to-mor
    56 lines, 3 comments
  • Johnson' s Wonder
    I’D been right round by overlands to see the world and life,
    And on the boat at Plymouth I met Johnson and his wife;
    55 lines
  • Never, Never Land
    By hut, homestead and shearing shed,
    By railroad, coach and track-
    40 lines, 2 comments
  • Johnson, alias Crow
    Where the seasons are divided and the bush begins to change,
    and the links are rather broken in the Great Dividing Range;
    22 lines
  • 'Shadows Before'
    "Like clouds o'er the South are the nations who reign
    On fair islands that we would command;
    16 lines
  • The Wreck Of The `Derry Castle'
    Day of ending for beginnings!
    Ocean hath another innings,
    39 lines
  • The Legend of Cooee Gully
    The night came down thro’ Deadman’s Gap,
    Where the ghostly saplings bent
    68 lines
  • A Song of the Republic
    Sons of the South, awake! arise!
    Sons of the South, and do.
    26 lines
  • 'Flag of the Southern Cross'
    Sons of Australia, be loyal and true to her -
    Fling out the flag of the Southern Cross!
    62 lines, 2 comments
  • Golden Gully
    No one lives in Golden Gully, for its golden days are o’er,
    And its clay shall never sully blucher-boots of diggers more,
    42 lines
  • The Hymn of the Socialists
    By the bodies and minds and souls that rot in a common stye
    In the city’s offal-holes, where the dregs of its horrors lie —
    24 lines
  • Only A Sod
    It's only a sod, but ’twill break me ould heart
    Nigh hardened wid toilin’ and carin’,
    20 lines
  • Statue of Robert Burns
    To a town in Southern land
    Light of purse I come and lone;
    34 lines
  • The Distant Drum
    Republicans! the time is coming!
    Listen to the distant drumming!
    28 lines
  • Andy's Gone With Cattle
    Our Andy's gone to battle now
    'Gainst Drought, the red marauder;
    38 lines, 2 comments
  • Faces In The Street
    They lie, the men who tell us in a loud decisive tone
    That want is here a stranger, and that misery's unknown;
    102 lines, 4 comments
  • The Blue Mountains
    Above the ashes straight and tall,
    Through ferns with moisture dripping,
    34 lines
  • The Army of the Rear
    I LISTENED through the music and the sounds of revelry,
    And all the hollow noises of that year of Jubilee;
    56 lines
  • Lachlan Side
    REGION of damper and junk and tea,
        Region of pastures wide!
    54 lines
  • Andy's Return
    With pannikins all rusty,
        And billy burnt and black,
    42 lines
  • A May Night on the Mountains
    ’Tis a wonderful time when these hours begin,
        These long ‘small hours’ of night,
    33 lines
  • The Watch on the Kerb
    Night-Lights are falling;
    Girl of the street,
    28 lines
  • 'Let’s Be Fools To-Night'
    We, three men of commerce,
        Striving wealth to raise,
    54 lines
  • Beaten Back
    BEATEN back in sad dejection,
        After years of weary toil
    33 lines, 1 comment
  • Shearer’s Song
    The season is over;
    The shearing is done;
    11 lines
  • Ballad Of The Drover
    Across the stony ridges,
    Across the rolling plain,
    97 lines
  • Mount Bukaroo
    Only one old post is standing -
    Solid yet, but only one -
    61 lines
  • The Teams
    A cloud of dust on the long white road,
    And the teams go creeping on
    46 lines, 2 comments
  • The Roaring Days
    The night too quickly passes
    And we are growing old,
    96 lines, 2 comments
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