Trivia day

Henry Lawson's 146th birthday, today.

This marvellous poet became totally deaf at fourteen. His sense of the rhythm of our Australian vernacular of his time is all the more amazing.
If you stumble upon this note, go find yourself a lov'ly poem to read...

Andy's Gone With Cattle
Freedom on the Wallaby
or any other...

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Seen on the back of a bus
Smoking 
first it takes you 
and then it takes your life