After the Crushing’s Over by W Gregory. Our beers cut down, and our creditors frown, And it’s hard to raise a pot, But we’ve worked down hard on me and my pard, And found troubles quite a lot But they’ll soon be o’er, and we’ll pay our score And find ourselves in clover, Get off […]
The Men of the Rail – a verse
The Men of the Rail Through time and space in a furious race Spurning the midnight gales. The steel steel reels on flying wheels Over the shining rails; With a good cigar in the sleepy cars, Cosy and safe and warm, Ye pay small heed to the headlong speed And the men who breast the […]
My Country by Dorothy MacKellar
I am sure that just about everyone would know or has heard the second verse of this wonderful verse beginning with ‘I love a sunburnt Country’ but not many would have read the full poem which is beautiful. I have given a short biography of the author below: My Country First Know as ‘Core of […]
The Women of the West –
They left the vine-wreathed cottage and the mansion on the hill, The houses in the busy streets where life is never still, The pleasures of the city, and the friends they cherished best: For love they faced the wilderness -the Women of the West. The roar, and rush, and fever of the city died away, […]
Song of the Pipeline by Alan Ferguson
Song of the Pipeline by Alan Ferguson Way over the desert the daylight is fading The campfires grow bright at the close of the day And over the Darlings, our loved ones are waiting Beyond the Great Ocean, in Ireland far away. Way out in the diggings, the miners are toiling Dry blowing gold in […]
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