#Australians
You are growing convalescent As pain’s fingers are withdrawn; And you waken in a strange, white… Yet your thought is aught but plea… In the cold, grey winter dawn,
A patriot spake thus to an eager t… ‘Give me the power and I shall ri… And Fortune, smiling, on our land… His name was COOK. Lo, I beheld, throughout a contin…
‘Yer honor, please!’ the prisoner… ‘It isn’t wot you think. To look on wine when it is red Or alco’olic drink Is not among me little ways.
Sun Day is a simple child, Face new washed and shining; In the morning prim and mild Church and mid-day dining. If, before the shadows fall,
Here, in soft darkness where the w… Dreamless, my quiet garden slumber… Night’s soothing fingers all adrip… Crept in and out, weaving a mystic… O’er wilting bud and bell;
Old Pete Paraday, his mind works… But, when it fastens on a thoughts… He measures it and mumbles it unti… Just as he mumbles bits and scraps… ‘I likes to think a bit,’ says he.…
Up and down the roads they go Vale to hill, and hill to vale Leading on to Omeo Over many an olden trail Dainty lady of the hills,
The veil was rent, and mundane Ti… And I beheld the End of Things.… Pronounced on all the World that… Rank upon rank before the Throne… And every man since Time began by…
Mr Fitzmickle, the martinet, Stern lord of his house and kin, Is a small, bald man, and a cricke… Since the night he listened in On his young son’s set one winter…
I happened in Gosh on an ancient… In the land of Glugs far, far awa… Where the skies are green and the… And the citizens rarely troubl’d t… Each had a vote; they were proud o…
What’s the use? Give it best; Cut her loose; Have a rest. Hope is dead;
He has made many meals On the Lib’rals of late, And the way that he feels May be judged by his state; For the fact that he has indigesti…
Aha! Beware! I know your guilty p… I was a witness of that secret cri… One word! and all your fondest hop… I bide me time. I hold you in me grip, unhappy man…
He was lyin’ on his bunk, In the hut behind the mill, Ravin’ like a man wild drunk, Never silent, never still, ‘Best go in an’ say Good bye,’
When I led you to the altar Vows were made, you’ll call to min… Darling wife. Now a defaulter Must I seem if I’d be kind. For you know how well I love you,