#Australians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
I worked for fifty hours a week, And someone said to me, ‘Don’t be a serf! Throw off your… And show the world you’re free!’ So I cut down my working hours
I got so down to it last night, With longin’ for what could not be… That nothin’ in the world seemed r… Or everything was wrong with me. My house was just a lonely hole,
I know I’m dull. I know I got a… That’s only fit fer fertilizin’ 'a… I don’t arst for bokays: I ain’t… But fair is fair. An’ when yeh think yer somethin’ u…
A month ago the world grew grey fe… A month ago the light went out fer… To ‘er they broke it gentle as mig… But fer ’is pal ‘twus one uv them… That stops the ’eart-beat; fer to…
Da ruction happen by Nicko’s plac… Las’ week, in da deada da night. Da copper he very near cop da case Accounta da fish-shop fight In da great beeg international way
A patriot spake thus to an eager t… ‘Give me the power and I shall ri… And Fortune, smiling, on our land… His name was COOK. Lo, I beheld, throughout a contin…
There’s joy in legislative halls When Frank’s in opposition; But gloom upon the Chamber falls When Frank holds high position. His merry japes no longer flit
Eight days to beer! A sigh sweeps… Sweeps like a gale from 'Frisco t… ('Say! But it’s tough, this long… Oh boy! I’m rarin’ to get at tha… Six days to beer! Was ever waiti…
Oh, what a pleasant game is life When we are bravely batting And glorying in skill and strife. We scorn defensive patting As Fate sends down the easy ones
There is women, yer Worship, of v… An’ some of 'em’s fluffy a’ foolis… An’ some is sispicious an’ mean in… An’ others fair set-like an’ mulis… There is some, as I owns, is real…
Hist! . . . . . . Hark! The night is very dark, And we’ve to go a mile or so Across the Possum Park. Step . . . . . . light,
What have we missed? Now he retu… We are left with but our blindness… But, concentrating on his spats in… Missed all the lure of that impres… Caricaturists, gazing at his feet,
‘Mr Mead, the printer’ - so the t… But never in his presence since hi… Such a plain, plebeian title would… Felix Mead, Esquire, the literary… Down the street each morning to th…
‘Heirlums,’ ‘e sez. ’I’ve ‘ad th… Me father married in ’em, that ‘e… See this ’ere fancy vest? See this 'ere lid? Me gran’dad brought that frum 'is…
When I go back from Billy’s place… The mazy road, the crazy road that… Ma always says, “Why don’t you co… The footbridge track will bring yo… I cannot go that way, you know, be…