In the Days When the World Was Wide, and Other Verses
by Henry Lawson
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- IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OTHER VERSES
- (2 ed.)
- [Australian house-painter, author and poet — 1867-1922.]
- PREFACE
- To J. F. Archibald
- To an Old Mate
- CONTENTS WITH FIRST LINES
- IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OTHER VERSES
- In the Days When the World was Wide
- Faces in the Street
- The Roaring Days
- 'For'ard'
- The Drover's Sweetheart
- Out Back
- The Free-Selector's Daughter
- 'Sez You'
- Andy's Gone With Cattle
- Jack Dunn of Nevertire
- Trooper Campbell
- The Sliprails and the Spur
- Past Carin'
- The Glass on the Bar
- The Shanty on the Rise
- The Vagabond
- Sweeney
- Middleton's Rouseabout
- The Ballad of the Drover
- Taking His Chance
- When the 'Army' Prays for Watty
- The Wreck of the 'Derry Castle'
- Ben Duggan
- The Star of Australasia
- The Great Grey Plain
- The Song of Old Joe Swallow
- Corny Bill
- Cherry-Tree Inn
- Up the Country
- Knocked Up
- The Blue Mountains
- The City Bushman
- Eurunderee
- Mount Bukaroo
- The Fire at Ross's Farm
- The Teams
- Cameron's Heart
- The Shame of Going Back
- Since Then
- Peter Anderson and Co.
- When the Children Come Home
- Dan, the Wreck
- A Prouder Man Than You
- The Song and the Sigh
- The Cambaroora Star
- After All
- Marshall's Mate
- The Poets of the Tomb
- Australian Bards and Bush Reviewers
- The Ghost
- The End.
- [From the July, 1909 section of Advertisements.]
- WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE,
- WHILE THE BILLY BOILS.
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