. Selected poems; . his first promise and did something more. Of Lazvsons place in literature it is idle to speak. Somethingof zvhat Burns did for Scotland, something of zvhat Kipling didfor India, he has done for Australia; but he is not in the leastlike either Kipling or Burns. ludged as verse, his zvork hasnearly always a certain crudity; judged by the higher standardof poetry, it is often greatest zvhcit the crudity is most the coming chances and changes it is daring to predictimmortality for any zvriter. The world is being remade in fireand pain; in that remaking every standar
. Selected poems; . his first promise and did something more. Of Lazvsons place in literature it is idle to speak. Somethingof zvhat Burns did for Scotland, something of zvhat Kipling didfor India, he has done for Australia; but he is not in the leastlike either Kipling or Burns. ludged as verse, his zvork hasnearly always a certain crudity; judged by the higher standardof poetry, it is often greatest zvhcit the crudity is most the coming chances and changes it is daring to predictimmortality for any zvriter. The world is being remade in fireand pain; in that remaking every standard of achievement may bealtered utterly from those to zvliich zvc have been accustomed; PREFACE xiii hut if permanency is to be looked for anywhere, it is in vital, red-blooded ivork such as Lawsons—work that came so straightfrom the heart that it must always find a heart to respond to Australia is there, painted with a big brush in the coloursin which its people see it. David McKee Wright. September, COn^TEIsTTS England Yet The Star of Australasia The Sliprails and the Spur Faces in the Street The Wander-light The Roaring Days The Vagabond Since Then Sweeney The Blue Mountains Past Carin Sydney-side Dan the Wreck Ports of the Open Sea To Jim The Lights of Cobb and Co. Middletons Rouseabout 3 8 ID 1416 192325283032 34 37404244 xvi CONTENTS PAGE One-Hundred-and-Three -. 46 Bertha 52 The Shearing-Shed 54The Drovers Sweetheart - 56 My Literary Friend 58 Ballad of the Rouseabout 59 Andy^s Gone ^^ITH Cattle 61 The Vanguard - 62 Bill 63 When Your Pants Begin To Go 66 The Teams 68 \\hEX the \\oRLD was \^IDE JO Ballad of the Elder Son - 74 The Southerly Buster 79 Out Back 8i Ballad of the Drover 84 After All 87 Black Bonnet 89 Mv Army, O AIy Army 93 Talbragar 95 Above Crows Nest 97 The Shakedown on the Floor 99 \\ritten Afterwards ioi The Green-hand Rouseabout 103 Scots of the Riverina 106 The Never-Never Land 108 After the War hi The Jolly Dead March 116 Forard 119 SELE
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