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A Song of the Pen by Andrew Barton Paterson
Not for the love of women toil we, we of the craft,
Not for the people’s praise;
Only because ou..
Ambition and Art by Andrew Barton Paterson
Ambition
I am the maid of the lustrous eyes
Of great fruition,
Whom the sons of men that are o..
A Bush Lawyer by Andrew Barton Paterson
When Ironbark the turtle came to Anthony’s lagoon
The hills were hid behind a mist of equinoctal r..
Australian Scenery by Andrew Barton Paterson
The Mountains
A land of sombre, silent hills, where mountain cattle go
By twisted tracks, on sid..
At the Melting of the Snow by Andrew Barton Paterson
There’s a sunny Southern land,
And it’s there that I would be
Where the big hills stand,
In th..
"Ave Ceasar" by Andrew Barton Paterson
Long ago the Gladiators,
When the call to combat came,
Marching past the massed spectators,
Ha..
A Bushman's Song by Andrew Barton Paterson
I’M travellin’ down the Castlereagh, and I’m a station hand,
I’m handy with the ropin’ pole, I’m h..
A Dream of the Melbourne Cup by Andrew Barton Paterson
Bring me a quart of colonial beer
And some doughy damper to make good cheer,
I must make a heavy..
Australia Today 1916 by Andrew Barton Paterson
They came from the lower levels
Deep down in the Brilliant mine;
From the wastes where the whirl..
A Mountain Station by Andrew Barton Paterson
I bought a run a while ago,
On country rough and ridgy,
Where wallaroos and wombats grow --
Th..
A Singer of the Bush by Andrew Barton Paterson
There is waving of grass in the breeze
And a song in the air,
And a murmur of myriad bees
That to..
An Idyll of Dandaloo by Andrew Barton Paterson
On Western plains, where shade is not,
’Neath summer skies of cloudless blue,
Where all is dry a..
A Disqualified Jockey's Story by Andrew Barton Paterson
You see, the thing was this way -- there was me,
That rode Panopply, the Splendor mare,
And Ikey..
A Voice from the Town by Andrew Barton Paterson
I thought, in the days of the droving,
Of steps I might hope to retrace,
To be done with the bus..
A Motor Courtship by Andrew Barton Paterson
Into her presence he gaily pranced,
A very fat spark, and a bit advanced.
With a Samson tread on..
A Nervous Governor-General by Andrew Barton Paterson
We read in the press that Lord Northcote is here
To take up Lord Tennyson’s mission.
’Tis pleasa..
A Job for McGuinness by Andrew Barton Paterson
Oh, it’s dreadful to think in a country like this
With its chances for work - and enjoyment
That..
A Walgett Episode by Andrew Barton Paterson
The sun strikes down with a blinding glare;
The skies are blue and the plains are wide,
The salt..
An Evening in Dandaloo by Andrew Barton Paterson
It was while we held our races --
Hurdles, sprints and steplechases --
Up in Dandaloo,
That a..
Anthony Considine by Andrew Barton Paterson
OUT in the wastes of the West countrie,
Out where the white stars shine,
Grim and silent as such..
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