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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. The Glass on the Bar
  3. Flag of the Southern Cross
  4. My Land and I
  5. As far as Your Rifles Cover


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