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Henry Lawson. The Skyline Riders and Other Verses
The Skyline Riders and Other Verses
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Skyline Riders
“Outside”
Do They Think That I Do Not Know?
Somewhere Up in Queensland
Down the River
Success
Billy of Queensland
The Lily and the Bee
William Street
The King of Our Republic
The Bonny Port of Sydney
“Broken Axletree”
Clinging Back
The Memories They Bring
Above Lavender Bay
He Had so Much Work to Do
The Foreign Drunk
Cromwell
The Imported Servant
At the Beating of a Drum
Nineteen Nine
Grace Jennings Carmichael
The Old, Old Story and the New Order
The Briny Grave
Bonnie New South Wales
Sheoaks That Sigh When the Wind is Still
The Men Who Stuck to Me
The Heart of the Swag
The Men Who Made Bad Matches
“Here Died.”
The Black Bordered Letter
A Bush Girl
“Fall In, My Men, Fall In.”
The Scots
The Song of a Prison
The “Soldier Birds”
Captain Von Esson of the “Sebastopol”
I’d Back Again the World
The Horse and Cart Ferry
The Song of Australia
The WattleNo Better Right Than I
The World is Full of Kindness
As It Was in the Beginning
The Patteran
The King
Ben Boyd’s Tower
Seaweed, Tussock, and Fern
The Rose
“Everyone’s Friend”
THE END
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Henry Lawson
Published by Good Press, 2021
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There are many people who say they cannot see anything in Henry Lawson’s work. There are always people who find it so much easier to criticise than to praise. Anyone can criticise; very few know just how to express their approval of what they see or read.
Then there is a strong opposition among a certain class to anything Australian. “We live in Australia; give us something that does not smell of the bush,” is frequently heard. And this, too, from people who should know better. It is a good thing that Henry Lawson began his life in the bush. Had he spent his early days in the heart of any of our capitals, he might never have written a line worth reading. His work is a standing rebuke to those who see no good in their own country. Not even his worst enemy could ever say that Henry Lawson has gone back on Australia. He has placed the nation under an obligation which can never be fully paid. He is a man in a million, sent to speak to us of things that our own half-blind eyes fail to see. And how he has spoken! Ever since 1887, when he first got a footing in the “Bulletin,” he has written hard. Now and then he shoots wide of the target, but he generally “gets home” with a clinking “bully.” He many a time phrases a thing in rather an ugly way. That cannot be helped. Eyes are not all focussed alike. Nor are all hearts tuned to the same key. Henry Lawson is fearless and outspoken to a degree which many dislike. Yet it is a good thing that there are men of his stamp in the world. If there were not, many a wrong would go unrighted. In “The Writer’s Dream” (Verses Popular and Humorous) he says:—
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