Henry Lawson

“ To hide the few I see,
Because they only point and say
Most bitter things to me.
I wear my life on pavement stones
That drag me ever down,
A paltry slave to little things,
By custom chained to town. ”

“ The rest the Bush can bring,
And hear, perhaps, with truer ears
The songs it has to sing.
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