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Poem by Henry Lawson


Send Round the Hat


Now this is the creed from the Book of the Bush – 
Should be simple and plain to a dunce: 
”If a man’s in a hole you must pass round the hat – 
Were he jail-bird or gentleman once.”



Henry Lawson


Henry Lawson's other poems:
  1. The Uncultured Rhymer to His Cultured Critics
  2. When the Ladies Come to the Shearing Shed
  3. The Glass on the Bar
  4. Flag of the Southern Cross
  5. My Land and I


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