<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408998" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What Have We All Forgotten?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHAT have we all forgotten, at the break of the seventh year?<br>With a nation born to the ages and a Bad Time borne on its bier!<br>Public robbing, and lying that death cannot erase—<br>“Private” strife and deception—Cover the bad dead face!<br>Drinking, gambling and madness—Cover and bear it away—<br>But what have we all forgotten at the dawn of the seventh day?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These are the years of plenty—years when the “tanks” are full—<br>Stacked by the lonely sidings mountains of wheat and wool.<br>Country crowds to the city, healthy, shaven and dressed,<br>Clothes to wear with the gayest, money to spend with the best.<br>Grand are the lights of the cities, carnival kings in power—<br>But what have we all forgotten, in this, the eleventh hour?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“We” have brought the states together, a land to the lands new born.<br>We have worked in the glorious weather, we have garnered and reaped and shorn.<br>We have come from the grass-waves flowing under Heaven’s electric lamps<br>(Making of sordid cities, boyish and jovial camps).<br>“We” have cleansed the cities and townships: we rest and frolic and gain,<br>But what have we all forgotten? Did we send the peace and the rain?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What have we all forgotten, here in our glorious home?<br>(I the greater the sinner because I was greater than some.)<br>What have we all forgotten so widely from east to west?<br>(I—and the most ungrateful because I was doubly blessed.)<br>Sinners to self and to country! and saviours though misunderstood!<br>Let us all kneel for one moment and thank the Great Spirits for Good.</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=408998" data-title="What Have We All Forgotten? de Henry Lawson" data-description="WHAT have we all forgotten, at the break of the seventh year? With a nation born to the ages and a Bad Time borne on its bier! Public robbing, and lying that death cannot erase— “Private” strife and deception—Cover the bad dead face! Drink..."></div> </div> </div>

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