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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. A Voice from the City
  2. The Great Grey Plain
  3. 'Tambaroora Jim'
  4. The Shakedown on the Floor
  5. Peter Anderson and Co.


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