#Australians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
‘It’s dogged as does it.' They’v… A motto to hold in that tight litt… To hold in their fighting and toil… And stick to the job with a tight… As fortune seems bleakest they cut…
They were a merrie companie, Who’d dwelt together all these yea… A little mixed in type, maybe; Yet prone to mingle now as peers, For old acquaintance sake; and so,
As I rode in to Burrumbeet, I met a man with funny feet; And, when I paused to ask him why His feet were strange, he rolled h… And said the rain would spoil the…
At the risk of seeming silly, I would ask you, ‘Where is Billy… Here’s a crisis, here’s a fight, And he’s missing. Strike a light… Blithering blazes! Here’s a mill…
There was once a Simple People -… This is just a little fable of a n… There was once a Simple People, a… And his name - well, SMITH the… And they lived upon an island by a…
So, they’ve struck their streak o’… An’ there’s more than one ole pal… But Ginger still takes nourishmen… An’ so ‘e sends the strength uv it… ’On the day we 'it the transport t…
Men of the sea (said Bones, A.B.… Is touchy coves and curious, They stands a lot, till some dark… Gets 'em all hot an’ furious. Tricks with their food brings on a…
Borrowin’ over the water; I’ve se… Raisin’ loans (said Old George J… Was a trick we learned of yore. Borrowin’ over the water In the old Australian way
He dreaded not dark, nor the lonel… For the world, as he knew it, was… Nor threat of the risk, nor necess… Gave fear to his innocent mind. He was merely abroad for a country…
‘When I’m sittin’ in me dug-out w… An’ a yowlin’, 'owlin’ chorus come… Jist a bit o’ 'Bonnie Mary’ or '… Then I know I’m in Australia, to… They’ve bin up agin it solid since…
I knew a policeman once And this is true as it ever could… Who made me feel an awful dunce; ‘Cos I lost my dad, and it fright… He came and took me by the hand
’Twas a hell of a Hell they glimp… In superstitious days When cultured man had scarce begun To shed barbaric ways: With gridirons set above the flame
There’s a moral in this: tho’ I o… Of moral and maxim in season and o… Grows stale; yet these days of dep… Demand any means to put worry to r… So in that menagerie now populated
This we have said: ‘We shall reme… And deep our sorrow while the deed… Even as David mourned for Absolem Mourned we, with aching heart and… Yet, what man grieves for long? T…
Briggs Joseph Briggs, of Yorkshire, Eng… Where the large importers’ profits… Digs Deep into his mine of wisdom, and,…