. Selected poems; . sTTS 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 \\h


. Selected poems; . sTTS 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 SELECTED POEMS OF HENRY LAWSON. Eng-land Yet HES England yet! The nations never knewher;Or, if they knew, were ready to made new worlds that paid no homage toher,Because she called for none as for a bullying power who deemed all nations craven. And that her star of destiny had sure that she would seek a cowards haven—And tempted her, and found her England yet! We learn our England, and we soon forget,To learn again that she is England yet. They watched Britannia ever looking forward, But could not see the things her children watched in Southern seas her boats pull shoreward. But only marked the eyeglass, heard the Haw!In tents, and bungalows, and outpost stations. Thin white men ruled for her, unseen, millions of strange races and far nations Were ready to obey her at a word. We learn our England, and in peace forget,To learn in storm that she is England yet. ENGLAND YET Shes England yet; and men shall doubt no longer; And mourn no longer for wh


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