[Editor: This non-rhyming poem was published in The Bulletin (Sydney, NSW), 21 August 1886.] The Charge of Illawarra. “On Friday, as a party of Illawarra light horse were cantering sharply down Castlereagh-street, Sydney, they came into collision with a tip-cart, and one of the cavalry men received a severe fall.” From the fields of Illawarra, […]
Reinforcements [poem, 18 July 1916]
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[Editor: A poem by M. Forrest, written at the time of the First World War. Published in the West Gippsland Gazette, 18 July 1916.] Reinforcements. Big men from the Hawkesbury, and brown men from the bush, Clear-eyed men and great-armed men across the forest’s hush, And in between the purple hills, and down the hard […]
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