A B Banjo Paterson

The emus formed a football
Up Walgett way;
Their dark-brown sweaters were a
But kangaroos would sit and

Let us cease our idle chatter,
Let the tears bedew our cheek,
For a man from
Has been missing for a week

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SE  by A B ‘Banjo’
This collection of 60 poems published many times over the decades appear to have one thing in common with other
As in most 1 author anthologies there is a theme running throughout

Scene:
On
Dramatis Personae:
Shock-headed blackfellow,

So you're back from up the country,
Mister Lawson, where you went,
And you're cursing all the business in a bitter discontent;
Well, we grieve to disappoint you, and it makes us sad to

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, "...

'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 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...

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

On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few,
And men of religion are scanty,
On a road never cross'd 'cept by folk that are lost,
One Michael Magee had a shanty

It lies beyond the Western
Towards the sinking sun,
And not a survey mark
The bounds of "Brumby's Run"

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