<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408732" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Scots of the Riverina</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boy cleared out to the city from his home at harvest time -- <br>They were Scots of the Riverina, and to run from home was a crime. <br>The old man burned his letters, the first and last he burned, <br>And he scratched his name from the Bible when the old wife's back was turned. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A year went past and another. There were calls from the firing-line; <br>They heard the boy had enlisted, but the old man made no sign. <br>His name must never be mentioned on the farm by Gundagai -- <br>They were Scots of the Riverina with ever the kirk hard by. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boy came home on his &quot;final&quot;, and the township's bonfire burned. <br>His mother's arms were about him; but the old man's back was turned. <br>The daughters begged for pardon till the old man raised his hand -- <br>A Scot of the Riverina who was hard to understand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boy was killed in Flanders, where the best and bravest die. <br>There were tears at the Grahame homestead and grief in Gundagai; <br>But the old man ploughed at daybreak and the old man ploughed till the mirk --<br>There were furrows of pain in the orchard while his housefolk went to the kirk. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hurricane lamp in the rafters dimly and dimly burned; <br>And the old man died at the table when the old wife's back was turned. <br>Face down on his bare arms folded he sank with his wild grey hair <br>Outspread o'er the open Bible and a name re-written there.</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=408732" data-title="Scots of the Riverina de Henry Lawson" data-description="The boy cleared out to the city from his home at harvest time -- They were Scots of the Riverina, and to run from home was a crime. The old man burned his letters, the first and last he burned, And he scratched his name from the Bible when the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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