Just recently, I was helping a lady search for information on her grandfather who was once the mayor of Cue in the Murchison. While looking for information, I came across the following verse which was written about him when he became one of the trustees of the Cue Cemetery. Sunday Press 26 July 1903, page […]
He Had So Much Work To Do –
22/04/2023 By 2 Comments
Another favourite verse from the pen of Henry Lawson I tell a simple little story of a settler in the West, Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never rest While the sun shines—and they often work in rainy weather, too: But it’s all about a young man who had so much work to […]
Charlie Webb – a good fellows end
11/03/2023 By 2 Comments
The Sun Kalgoorlie, WA 30 July 1916, page 4 MT REMARKABLE: The inability of a party of Perth politicians and pressmen who were motoring in the locality to see any eminence indicating Mt. Marshall recalled a story told by Charlie Webb, late of the Granites, Yundamindera, via Pindinnie. Out near the Granites was an […]
The Cattle Dogs Death
11/03/2023 By 1 Comment
The Cattle Dogs Death by Henry Lawson The Plains lay bare on the homeward route, And the march was heavy on man and brute; For the Spirit of Drought was on all the land, And the white heat danced on the glowing sand. The best of our cattle-dogs lagged at last, His strength gave out […]
In The Future – by Prospect Good
04/03/2023 By Leave a Comment
In The Future by Prospect Good Oh what will the bush bards sing in time When the digging days are done? When the roaring times have been sung in rhymes The yarns of the past all spun? When there’s no new field to rush and work And never a campfire gleams When the stampers’ roar […]
