phantom in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses
in the days ere you were born? Ah! we read about the drovers and the shearers and the like Till we wonder why such happy and romantic fellows strike. Don't you fancy that the poets ought to give the bush a rest Ere they raise a just rebellion in the over-written West? Where the simple-minded bushma…
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- 2,769
- Year
- 1,896
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- Project Gutenberg
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- 2769
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- Publication
- In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses; Henry Lawson
- Published
- 1896; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
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- Retellings and Adaptations
- Public-text label
- phantom
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
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in the days ere you were born? Ah! we read about the drovers and the shearers and the like Till we wonder why such happy and romantic fellows strike. Don't you fancy that the poets ought to give the bush a rest Ere they raise a just rebellion in the over-written West? Where the simple-minded bushman gets a meal and bed and rum Just by riding round reporting phantom flocks that never come; Where the scalper -- never troubled by the 'war-whoop of the push' -- Has a quiet little billet -- breeding rabbits in the bush; Where the idle shanty-keeper never fails to make a draw, And the dummy gets his tucker through provisions in the law;.
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