“Now I often sit at Watty’s, when the night is very near

Then the reelroad wasn’t heered on, an’ the bush was wild an’ strange,An’ we useter draw the timber from the saw-pits in the range —Load provisions for the stations, an’ we’d travel far and slowThrough the plains an’ ‘cross the ranges in the days of long ago.Then it’s yoke up the bullicks and tramp beside…

But I think I was mistaken, and there are many times I findWhen you do not care a candle if your pants are gone behind;For a fellow mostly loses all ambition, hope, and pride,When—to put the matter mildly—he is bad in his inside.Bobby Burns was down on toothache, and it troubled him no doubt;But you…

To climb the spurs of the breezy peaks,Or dive in the shaded pool”

And above them in the sunlight Labour’s banners float and flow;They are marching with the sun,But I look in vain for oneOf the men who fought for freedom more than fifteen years ago.They were men who did the workOut at Blackall, Hay, and Bourke –They were men who fought the battle that the world shall…

But I scorn the biassed sentence from the temples of the creedThat was fouled and mutilated by the ministers of greed,For the strength that I inherit is the strength of Truth and Right;Lords of earth! I am immortal in the battles cf the night!My religion is the oldest; it was born upon the earthWhen to…

And the old folks are chatting on deck-seats and chairs,And the lads and the lassies go strolling in pairs.Some gaze half-entranced on the beautiful sea,And wonder perhaps if a vision it be:And surely their journeys no sorrow nor care,For wealth, love, and beauty are passengers there.But down underneath, ’mid the coal dust that smearsThe face…