Henry Lawson

“ An' 'doctors' come from 'Frisco just to learn us how to skite,
An' 'pugs' from all the lands on earth to learn us how to fight;
An' when they go, as like or not, we find we're taken in,
They've left behind no larnin' — but they've carried off our tin.
This work is in the public domain in Australia because it was created in Australia and the term of copyright has expired. ”

“ Ridin' bareback on a bucker that had murder in his eye.
What? yer come to learn the natives how to squat on horse's back!
Learn the cornstalk ridin'! Blazes! — w'at yer giv'n'us, Texas Jack?
Learn the cornstalk — what the flamin', jumptup! where's my country gone?
Why, the cornstalk's mother often rides the day afore he's born!
You may talk about your ridin' in the city, bold an' free,
Talk o' ridin' in the city, Texas Jack, but where'd yer be
When the stock horse snorts an' bunches all 'is quarters in a hump,
And the saddle climbs a sapling, an' the horse-shoes split a stump? ”

“ This work is also in the public domain in the United States because it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days) , and it was first published before 1989 without complying with U.S. copyright formalities (renewal and/or copyright notice) and it was in the public domain in Australia on the URAA date (January 1, 1996) . This is the combined effect of Australia having joined the Berne Convention in 1928, and of 17 USC 104A with its critical date of January 1, 1996. ”