<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551253" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Edward Harrington</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With the best writers of his era Edward Harrington did rate<br>The farmer's son from Shepparton was a poetic great<br>He wrote the stirring ballads that poetry lovers love to recite<br>A poem of his recited at many a poetry night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a young man Edward Harrington went off to fight in war<br>And through the remainder of his life he carried the mental scar<br>Of his terrible experiences in Palestine far away<br>And the mental scar remained with him until his dying day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His great ballads of the Australian bush rangers Dan Morgan and the Kelly gang are sung<br>By ballad singers who heard them when they themselves were young, <br>Australia's most notorious in verse he glorified<br>The men who hid from the law in the rugged country side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was one of Australia's last famous men of rhyme<br>The poems of Edward Harrington have withstood the test of time<br>And those who knew the great poet said he was sensitive and shy<br>And fame and adulation he did not seem to enjoy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In 1965 in his seventieth year Edward Harrington passed away<br>But his poems are still recited and his songs are sung today<br>The farmer's son from Shepparton a prince of poetry<br>One of Australia's finest and few as great as he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=551253" data-title="Edward Harrington de Francis Duggan" data-description="With the best writers of his era Edward Harrington did rate The farmer's son from Shepparton was a poetic great He wrote the stirring ballads that poetry lovers love to recite A poem of his recited at many a poetry night. As a young man Edward Ha..."></div> </div> </div>

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