<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408583" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Broken Axletree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the Track of Grand Endeavour, on the long track out to Bourke,<br>Past the Turn-Back, and past Howlong, and the pub at Sudden Jerk,<br>Past old Bullock-Yoke and Bog Flat, and the “Pinch” at Stick-to-me,<br>Lies the camp that we have christened—christened “Broken Axletree.” <br>We were young and strong and fearless, we had not seen Mount Despair,<br>And the West was to be conquered, and we meant to do our share;<br>We were far away from cities, and were fairly off the spree<br>When we camped at Cart Wheel River with a broken axletree. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, the pub at Devil’s Crossing! and the woman that he sent!<br>And the hell for which we bartered horse and trap and “traps” and tent!<br>And the black “Since Then”—the chances that we never more may see—<br>Ah! the two lives that were ruined for a broken axletree! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Fate” is but a Cart Wheel River, placed to test us by the Lord,<br>And the Star of Live Forever shines beyond At Blacksmith’s Ford!<br>Shun all fatalists and “isms”—heed no talk of “destiny”!<br>Ride a race for life to Blacksmith’s with your broken axletree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</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=408583" data-title="Broken Axletree de Henry Lawson" data-description="On the Track of Grand Endeavour, on the long track out to Bourke, Past the Turn-Back, and past Howlong, and the pub at Sudden Jerk, Past old Bullock-Yoke and Bog Flat, and the “Pinch” at Stick-to-me, Lies the camp that we have christened—chr..."></div> </div> </div>

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