Henry Lawson

“ Through years of flood and drought,
The best of English black-sheep work
Their own salvation out:
Wild fresh-faced boys grown gaunt and brown —
Stiff-lipped and haggard-eyed —
They live the Dead Past grimly down! ”

“ In Never-Never Land.
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