IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OTHER VERSES

(2 ed.)

by Henry Lawson

[Australian house-painter, author and poet — 1867-1922.]

PREFACE

To an Old Mate

IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OTHER VERSES

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.

[Note on content: Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson were writing for the Sydney 'Bulletin' in 1892 when Lawson suggested a 'duel' of poetry to increase the number of poems they could sell to the paper. It was apparently entered into in all fun, though there are reports that Lawson was bitter about it later. 'Up the Country' and 'The City Bushman', included in this selection, were two of Lawson's contributions to the debate. Please note that this is the revised edition of 1900. Therefore, even though this book was originally published in 1896, it includes two poems not published until 1899 ('The Sliprails and the Spur' and 'Past Carin'').]

First Edition printed February 1896,

Reprinted August 1896, October 1896, March 1898, and November 1898;

Revised Edition, January 1900;

Reprinted May 1903, February 1910, June 1912, and July 1913.