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of wool-teams climbed the ranges from the West,
[Dec. -- 1891]

The Vagabond
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier
[Aug. -- 1895]
Sweeney
It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down, [Dec. --
1893]
Middleton's Rouseabout
Tall and freckled and sandy,
[Mar. -- 1890]
The Ballad of the Drover
Across the stony ridges,
[Mar. -- 1889]
Taking His Chance
They stood by the door of the Inn on the Rise;
[June -- 1892]
When the `Army' Prays for Watty
When the kindly hours of darkness, save for light of moon and star,
[May -- 1893]
The Wreck of the `Derry Castle'
Day of ending for beginnings!
[Dec. -- 1887]
Ben Duggan
Jack Denver died on Talbragar when Christmas Eve began,
[Dec. --
1891]
The Star of Australasia
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime;

The Great Grey Plain
Out West, where the stars are brightest,
[Sept. -- 1893]
The Song of Old Joe Swallow
When I was up the country in the rough and early days,
[May --
1890]
Corny Bill
His old clay pipe stuck in his mouth,
[May -- 1892]
Cherry-Tree Inn
The rafters are open to sun, moon, and star,
Up the Country
I am back from up the country -- very sorry that I went -- [July -- 1892]
Knocked Up
I'm lyin' on the barren ground that's baked and cracked with drought,
[Aug. -- 1893]
The Blue Mountains
Above the ashes straight and tall,
[Dec. -- 1888]
The City Bushman
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, [Aug.
-- 1892]
Eurunderee
There are scenes in the distance where beauty is not,
[Aug. -- 1891]

Mount Bukaroo
Only one old post is standing --
[Dec. -- 1889]
The Fire at Ross's Farm
The squatter saw his pastures wide
[Apr. -- 1891]
The Teams
A cloud of dust on the long white road,
[Dec. -- 1889]
Cameron's Heart
The diggings were just in their glory when Alister Cameron came, [July
-- 1891]
The Shame of Going Back
When you've come to make a fortune and you haven't made your salt,
[Oct. -- 1891]
Since Then
I met Jack Ellis in town to-day --
[Nov. -- 1895]
Peter Anderson and Co.
He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago,
[Aug. -- 1895]
When the Children Come Home
On a lonely selection far out in the West
[Dec. -- 1890]
Dan, the Wreck
Tall, and stout, and solid-looking,
A Prouder Man Than You

If you fancy that your people came of better stock than mine, [June --
1892]
The Song and the Sigh
The creek went down with a broken song,
[Mar. -- 1889]
The Cambaroora Star
So you're writing for a paper? Well, it's nothing very new [Dec. --
1891]
After All
The brooding ghosts of Australian night
have gone from the bush and
town;
Marshall's Mate
You almost heard the surface bake, and saw the gum-leaves turn --
[July -- 1895]
The Poets of the Tomb
The world has had enough of bards who wish that they were dead, [Oct.
-- 1892]
Australian Bards and Bush Reviewers
While you use your best endeavour to immortalise in verse [Feb. --
1894]
The Ghost
Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide, [Aug. --
1889]
In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses

In the Days When the World was Wide
The world is narrow and ways are short, and our lives are dull and slow,
For little is new where the crowds resort, and less where the wanderers
go; Greater, or smaller, the same old things we see by the dull road-side
-- And tired of all is the spirit that sings
of the days when the world
was wide.
When the North was hale in the march of Time,
and the South and the
West were new,
And the gorgeous East was a pantomime, as it
seemed in our boyhood's view; When Spain was first on the waves of
change,
and proud in the ranks of pride,
And all was wonderful,
new and strange in the days when the world was wide.
Then a man could fight if his heart were bold,
and win if his faith
were true --
Were it love, or honour, or power, or gold, or all that our
hearts pursue; Could live to the world for the family name, or die for
the family pride, Could fly from sorrow, and wrong, and shame
in the
days when the world was wide.
They sailed away in the ships that sailed ere science controlled the
main, When the strong, brave heart of a man prevailed
as 'twill never
prevail again;
They knew not whither, nor much they cared --
let
Fate or the winds decide --
The worst of the Great Unknown they
dared
in the days when the world was wide.
They raised new stars on the silent sea that filled their hearts with awe;