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Born in June 17, 1867 / Died in September 2, 1922 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Henry Lawson

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The Tracks That Lie By India

... The glance that says far more than words, the old half-mystic smile— ...

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A Word to Texas Jack

... You can’t count the bulls an’ bisons that yer copped with your lassoo— ...

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With Dickens

... ‘Not to deceive you, sir’—‘Stand by!’ ...

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I’m an Older Man Than You

... When your wife deceives or leaves you for a “blackguard”, “brute”, and “sot”, ...

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Andy's Return

...   He’ll soon enjoy his gains ...

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Bourke

... They’re scattered wide and scattered far—by fan-like tracks, north, east, and west— ...

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The Writer's Dream

... ‘By the heart of “Bill” and the heart of “Jim,” and the men that their hearts deem “white,” ...

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Mostly Slavonic

... And the rear wheels, which are fore wheels, with their murd’rous loads of steel ...

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Watching The Crows

... Like the form of that blackfellow—“watching the crows” ...

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The Federal City

... Where the crowd should be drawn from the coast line to the great bush that cradled the race, ...

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The Rebel

... They obeyed the Maker’s sentence—whey have ploughed and tilled the soil ...

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To Tom Bracken

...   An’ keep my tongue from clacken— ...

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The Route March

... Hear the little school-girls singing as our troops went swinging past ...

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The Little Native Rose

... Yet first for faint, far off perfume, ...

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Grey Wolves Grey

... And her tea-bricks bound with the bullock’s blood— ...