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The London lights are far
Behind a bank of cloud,
Along the shore the gaslights gleam,
The gale is piping loud;

The bell is set a-ringing, and the engine gives a toot,
There's five-and-thirty shearers here a-shearing for the loot,
So stir yourselves, you penners-up, and shove the sheep along —The musterers are fetching them a hundred thousand stro...

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Who goes there
” The sentry’s
Rose on the midnight

'Twas the dingo pup to his dam that said,"It's time I worked for my daily bread
Out in the world I intend to go,
And you'd be surprised at the things I know
"There's a wild duck's nest in a sheltered spot,

The chorus frogs in the big
Would sing their songs to the silvery moon
Tenor singers were out of place,
For every frog was a double bass

On the rugged water
At the top of the bridle
Where years ago, as the old men say,
The splitters went with a bullock

We have sung the song of the droving days, Of the march of the travelling sheep;
By silent stages and lonely ways Thin, white battalions creep
But the man who now by the land would thrive Must his spurs to a plough-share beat
Is the...

With never a sound of trumpet,
With never a flag displayed,
The last of the old
Lined up for the last parade

The strongest creature for his
But least equipped for
That dwells beneath Australian
Is Weary Will the Wombat

‘The Animals Noah Forgot’ A
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'Banjo' Paterson A wonderful look at some of the strange, wonderful animals in Australia - images attached where possible
The big white English swan, escaped from captivity, found himself swimming in an...

I had written him a letter which I had, for want of
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,
He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
Just "on spec", addressed as follows, "...

The opening of the railway line… The Governor and all,
With flags and banners down the street,
A banquet and a ball,
Hark to them at the station now