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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344140" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Passing of Gundagai</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I'll introduce a friend!" he said, <br>"And if you've got a vacant pen <br>You'd better take him in the shed <br>And start him shearing straight ahead; <br>He's one of these here quiet men. <br>"He never strikes -- that ain't his game; <br>No matter what the others try <br>He goes on shearing just the same. <br>I never rightly knew his name -- <br>We always call him 'Gundagai!'" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our flashest shearer then had gone <br>To train a racehorse for a race; <br>And, while his sporting fit was on <br>He couldn't be relied upon, <br>So Gundagai shore in his place. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas for man's veracity! <br>For reputations false and true! <br>This Gundagai turned out to be <br>For strife and all-round villainy <br>The very worst I ever knew! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He started racing Jack Devine, <br>And grumbled when I made him stop. <br>The pace he showed was extra fine, <br>But all those pure-bred ewes of mine <br>Were bleeding like a butcher's shop. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He cursed the sheep, he cursed the shed, <br>From roof to rafter, floor to shelf: <br>As for my mongrel ewes, he said, <br>I ought to get a razor-blade <br>And shave the blooming things myself. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On Sundays he controlled a "school", <br>And played "two-up" the livelong day; <br>And many a young confiding fool <br>He shore of his financial wool; <br>And when he lost he would not pay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He organised a shearers' race, <br>And "touched" me to provide the prize. <br>His pack-horse showed surprising pace <br>And won hands down -- he was The Ace, <br>A well-known racehorse in disguise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Next day the bruiser of the shed <br>Displayed an opal-tinted eye, <br>With large contusions on his head, <br>He smiled a sickly smile, and said <br>He's "had a cut at Gundagai!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, just as we were getting full <br>Of Gundagai and all his ways, <br>A telgram for "Henry Bull" <br>Arrived. Said he, "That's me -- all wool! <br>Let's see what this here message says." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He opened it; his face grew white, <br>He dropped the shears and turned away <br>It ran, "Your wife took bad last night; <br>Come home at once -- no time to write, <br>We fear she may not last the day." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He got his cheque -- I didn't care <br>To dock him for my mangled ewes; <br>His store account, we called it square, <br>Poor wretch! he had enough to bear, <br>Confronted by such dreadful news. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shearers raised a little purse <br>To help a mate, as shearers will. <br>"To pay the doctor and the nurse. <br>And, if there should be something worse, <br>To pay the undertaker's bill." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They wrung his hand in sympathy, <br>He rode away without a word, <br>His head hung down in misery . . . <br>A wandering hawker passing by <br>Was told of what had just occurred. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Well! that's a curious thing," he siad, <br>"I've known that feller all his life -- <br>He's had the loan of this here shed! <br>I know his wife ain't nearly dead, <br>Because he hasn't got a wife!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>You should have heard the whipcord crack <br>As angry shearers galloped by; <br>In vain they tried to fetch him back -- <br>A little dust along the track <br>Was all they saw of "Gundagai".</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344140" data-title="The Passing of Gundagai de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description=""I'll introduce a friend!" he said, "And if you've got a vacant pen You'd better take him in the shed And start him shearing straight ahead; He's one of these here quiet men. "He never strikes -- that ain't his game; No m..."></div> </div> </div>
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