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       A. B. Paterson

      The Man from Snowy River

      e-artnow, 2020

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN 4064066060077

       Preface

       Prelude

       Contents with First Lines

       THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER AND OTHER VERSES

       The Man from Snowy River

       Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve

       Clancy of the Overflow

       Conroy's Gap

       Our New Horse

       An Idyll of Dandaloo

       The Geebung Polo Club

       The Travelling Post Office

       Saltbush Bill

       A Mountain Station

       Been There Before

       The Man Who Was Away

       The Man from Ironbark

       The Open Steeplechase

       The Amateur Rider

       On Kiley's Run

       Frying Pan's Theology

       The Two Devines

       In the Droving Days

       Lost

       Over the Range

       Only a Jockey

       How M'Ginnis Went Missing

       A Voice from the Town

       A Bunch of Roses

       Black Swans

       The All Right 'Un

       The Boss of the 'Admiral Lynch'

       A Bushman's Song

       How Gilbert Died

       The Flying Gang

       Shearing at Castlereagh

       The Wind's Message

       Johnson's Antidote

       Ambition and Art

       The Daylight is Dying

       In Defence of the Bush

       Last Week

       Those Names

       A Bush Christening

       How the Favourite Beat Us

       The Great Calamity

       Come-by-Chance

       Under the Shadow of Kiley's Hill

       Jim Carew

       The Swagman's Rest

       Table of Contents

      It is not so easy to write ballads descriptive of the bushland of Australia as on light consideration would appear. Reasonably good verse on the subject has been supplied in sufficient quantity. But the maker of folksongs for our newborn nation requires a somewhat rare combination of gifts and experiences. Dowered with the poet's heart, he must yet have passed his 'wander-jaehre' amid the stern solitude of the Austral waste—must have ridden the race in the back-block township, guided the reckless stock-horse adown the mountain spur, and followed the night-long moving, spectral-seeming herd 'in the droving days'. Amid such scarce congenial surroundings comes oft that finer sense which renders visible bright gleams of humour, pathos, and romance, which, like undiscovered gold, await the fortunate adventurer. That the author has touched this treasure-trove, not less delicately than distinctly, no true Australian will deny. In my opinion this collection comprises the best bush ballads written since the death of Lindsay Gordon.

      Rolf Boldrewood

      A number of these verses are now published for the first time, most of the others were written for and appeared in “The Bulletin” (Sydney, N.S.W.), and are therefore already widely known to readers in Australasia.

      A. B. Paterson