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Sweet, think how much the better it would be If you thro' life should thus preserve your beauty. It really doesn't matter much to me; But don't you think you owe the world a duty,…
Clarence Michael James Dennis was a poet and journalist who began his writing career at an early age and who’s most successful collection was published during the Great War and became widely read by troops weary of fighting and by a public weary of hearing about mass war casualties. He was born September 7th 1876 in Auburn, Australia, one of three sons to Irish immigrant parents. His father James was a hard-working publican and hotelier who was left widowed when his wife Kate died in 1890, leaving his sons to be cared for by two Aunts. Clarence was interested in literature from a very early age. While at primary school he edited the Weekly Weary and his literary career continued through College in Adelaide with contributions to a local publication called Interesting Scraps. He left school at the age of 17 to work as a junior clerk but was fired for reading Rider Haggard during working hours; his passion for literature was strong and his first verse – a humorous poem – was published in the Laura Standard when he was 19 years old. His first foray as a journalist came in the late 1890s and lasted about a year after which he returned to work in his father’s hotel. It was here that Clarence said he “learned to drink” and this habit would follow him through life. His health began to fail and he returned to live with his Aunts, resuming his journalistic career. In 1903 his poem Urry was published and it is one which illustrates his humour and his style of writing perfectly. It is a long poem so here is just the first verse: His later works were written in a similar style. He liked to tell very human stories in dialect which could be easily understood by his readers. Dennis later said, following publication of The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, that With his style of writing he wanted to illustrate the importance of life and love to all people; as he put it, He went on to publish several more books including However he found it difficult to make enough money from writing and returned successfully to journalism in 1922. C J Dennis died from cardio-respiratory failure in a Melbourne hospital on 22nd June 1938.
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The sun burns hotly thro' the gums As down the road old Rogan comes - The hatter from the lonely hut Beside the track to Woollybutt.…
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Now, a man in Oodnadatta He grew fat, and he grew fatter, Though he hardly had a thing to eat for dinner; While a man in Booboorowie…
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"My oath!" the Duchess sez. "You'd not ixpect Sich things as that. Yeh don't mean kangaroos? Go hon!" she sez, or words to that effect - (It's 'ard to imitate the speech they use)…
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I'm only just a common racing dog, Simple in habit, and my diet's plain. I have never had a longing for the grog That some men seem to need, more vim to gain.…
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Within the wooded avenue I stood, And I was proud. I looked upon the scene and found it good; For here, I vowed,…
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At any other time of year It might have passed, but Spring is queer. He says somethin' - I dunno - Somethin' nasty. I says, "Ho!"…
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A month ago the world grew grey fer me; A month ago the light went out fer Rose. To 'er they broke it gentle as might be; But fer 'is pal 'twus one uv them swift blows…
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"Young friend!" . . . I tries to duck, but miss the bus. 'E sees me first, an' 'as me by the 'and. "Young friend!" 'e sez; an' starts to make a fuss At meetin' me. "Why, this," 'e…
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I 'ave written Mick a letter in reply to one uv 'is, Where 'e arsts 'ow things is goin' where the gums an wattles is. So I tries to buck 'im up a bit; to go fer Abdul's fez; An' I…
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The thrush is in the wattle tree, an', "O, you pretty dear!" He's callin' to his little wife for all the bush to hear. He's wantin' all the bush to know about his charmin' hen; He…
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I venerate economists As very learned blokes, But when in paradox they speak Their meaning oft I vainly seek,…
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I'ad the money in me 'and! Fair dinkum! Right there, by the stand. I tole me wife at breakfus' time, Straight out: "Trivalve," I sez "is prime.…
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You can't expect it! Goodness me! 'Twould be a dreadful policy! What sort of Ministerial dunce Would try to do two things at once?…
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Because a little vagrant wind veered south from China Sea; Or else, because a sun-spot stirred; and yet again, maybe Because some idle god in play breathed on an errant cloud, The…
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