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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344005" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John Gilbert (Bushranger)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">John Gilbert was a bushranger of terrible renown,<br>For sticking lots of people up and shooting others down.<br>John Gilbert said unto his pals, &quot;Although they make a bobbery<br> About our tricks we have never done a tip-top thing in robbery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;We have all of us a fancy for experiments in pillage,<br>Yet never have we seized a town, or even sacked a village.&quot;<br>John Gilbert said unto his mates—&quot;Though partners we have been<br>In all rascality, yet we no festal day have seen.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">John Gilbert said he thought he saw no obstacle to hinder a<br>Piratical descent upon the town of Canowindra.<br>So into Canowindra town rode Gilbert and his men,<br>And all the Canowindra folk subsided there and then.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Canowindra populace cried, &quot;Here's a lot of strangers!!!&quot;<br>But immediately recovered when they found they were bushrangers.<br>And Johnny Gilbert said to them, &quot;You need not be afraid.<br>We are only old companions whom bushrangers you have made.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Johnny Gilbert said, said he, &quot;We'll never hurt a hair<br>Of men who bravely recognise that we are just all there.&quot;<br>The New South Welshmen said at once, not making any fuss,<br>That Johnny Gilbert, after all, was &quot;Just but one of us.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Johnny Gilbert took the town (including public houses),<br>And treated all the &quot;cockatoos&quot; and shouted for their spouses.<br>And Miss O'Flanagan performed in manner quite gintailly<br>Upon the grand planner for the bushranger O'Meally.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And every stranger passing by they took, and when they got him<br>They robbed him of his money and occasionally shot him.<br>And Johnny's enigmatic feat admits of this solution,<br>That bushranging in New South Wales is a favoured institution.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Johnny Gilbert ne'er allows an anxious thought to fetch him,<br>For well he knows the Government don't really want to ketch him.<br>And if such practices should be to New South Welshmen dear,<br>With not the least demurring word ought we to interfere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q>
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