<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408606" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Down the River</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’VE done with joys an’ misery,<br>An’ why should I repine?<br>There’s no one knows the past but me<br>An’ that ol’ dog o’ mine.<br>We camp an’ walk an’ camp an’ walk,<br>An’ find it fairly good;<br>He can do anything but talk,<br>An’ he wouldn’t if he could.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We sits an’ thinks beside the fire,<br>With all the stars a-shine,<br>An’ no one knows our thoughts but me<br>An’ that there dog o’ mine.<br>We has our Johnny-cake an’ “scrag,”<br>An’ finds ’em fairly good;<br>He can do anything but talk,<br>An’ he wouldn’t if he could.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He gets a ’possum now an’ then,<br>I cooks it on the fire;<br>He has his water, me my tea—<br>What more could we desire?<br>He gets a rabbit when he likes,<br>We finds it pretty good;<br>He can do anything but talk,<br>An’ he wouldn’t if he could.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I has me smoke, he has his rest,<br>When sunset’s gettin’ dim;<br>An’ if I do get drunk at times,<br>It’s all the same to him.<br>So long’s he’s got me swag to mind,<br>He thinks that times is good;<br>He can do anything but talk,<br>An’ he wouldn’t if he could.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He gets his tucker from the cook,<br>For cook is good to him,<br>An’ when I sobers up a bit,<br>He goes an’ has a swim.<br>He likes the rivers where I fish,<br>An’ all the world is good;<br>He can do anything but talk,<br>An’ he wouldn’t if he could.</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=408606" data-title="Down the River de Henry Lawson" data-description="I’VE done with joys an’ misery, An’ why should I repine? There’s no one knows the past but me An’ that ol’ dog o’ mine. We camp an’ walk an’ camp an’ walk, An’ find it fairly good; He can do anything but talk, An’ he wouldn..."></div> </div> </div>

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