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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374795" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fact of the Matter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm wonderin' why those fellers who go buildin' chipper ditties,<br>'Bout the rosy times out drovin', an' the dust an' death of cities,<br>Don't sling the bloomin' office, strike some drover for a billet,<br>And soak up all the glory that comes handy while they fill it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">P'r'aps it's fun to travel cattle or to picnic with merinos,<br>But the drover don't catch on, sir, not much high-class rapture he knows.<br>As for sleepin' on the plains there in the shadder of the spear-grass,<br>That's liked best by the Juggins with a spring-bed an' a pier-glass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An' the camp-fire, an' the freedom, and the blanky constellations,<br>The 'possum-rug an' billy, an' the togs an' stale ole rations -<br>It's strange they're only raved about by coves that dress up pretty,<br>An' sport a wife, an' live on slap-up tucker in the city.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've tickled beef in my time clear from Clarke to Riverina,<br>An' shifted sheep all round the shop, but blow me if I've seen a<br>Single blanky hand who didn't buck at pleasures of this kidney,<br>And wouldn't trade his blisses for a flutter down in Sydney.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Night-watches are delightful when the stars are really splendid<br>To the chap who's fresh upon the job, but, you bet, his rapture's ended<br>When the rain comes down in sluice-heads, or the cuttin' hailstones pelter,<br>An' the sheep drift off before the wind, an' the horses strike for shelter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't take me for a howler, but I find it come annoyin'<br>To hear these fellers rave about the pleasures we're enjoyin',<br>When p'r'aps we've nothin' better than some fluky water handy,<br>An' they're right on all the lickers - rum, an' plenty beer an' brandy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The town is dusty, may be, but it isn't worth the curses<br>'Side the dust a feller swallers an' the blinded thirst he nurses<br>When he's on the hard macadam, where the jumbucks cannot browse, an'<br>The wind is in his whiskers, an' he follers twenty thousan'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This drovin' on the plain, too, it's all O.K. when the weather<br>Isn't hot enough to curl the soles right off your upper leather,<br>Or so cold that when the mornin' wind comes hissin' through the grasses<br>You can feel it cut your eyelids like a whip-lash as it passes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then there's bull-ants in the blankets, an' a lame horse, an' muskeeters,<br>An' a D.T. boss like Halligan, or one like Humpy Peters,<br>Who is mean about the tucker, an' can curse from start to sundown,<br>An' can fight like fifty devils, an' whose growler's never run down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, I wonder why the fellers what go building chipper ditties<br>'Bout the rosy times out drovin' an' the dust an' death of cities,<br>Don't sling the bloomin' office, strike ole Peters for a billet,<br>An' soak up all the glory that comes handy while they fill it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+George+Dyson">Edward George Dyson</a><div class=q>
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