Chapter 50
Australian Bards and Bush Reviewers by Henry Lawson Read for LibriVox.org by Drew Conway 5th of November 2016, Kent While you use your best endeavour to immortalise in verse The gambling and the drink which are your country's greatest curse
While you glorify the bully and take the spieler's part You're a clever southern writer scarce inferior to Bret Hart if you sing of waving grasses when the plains are dry as bricks and discover shining rivers when there's only mud and sticks if you picture mighty forests where the mulga spoils the view you're superior to kendall and ahead of gordon too if you swear there's not a country like the
land that gave you birth and its sons are just the noblest and most glorious chaps on earth If in every girl of Enos your poetic eye discerns You are gracefully referred to as the young Australian Burns But if you should find that Bushman's bite of all the poets say Are just common brother sinners and you're quite as good as they
You're a drunkard and a liar and a cynic and a sneak Your grammar's simply awful and your intellect is weak End of poem This recording is in the public domain Thank you.
