ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

just asking a question who wrote this

'Tis a wicked world we live in;
Wrong in reason, wrong in rhyme;
But no matter: we'll not give in
While we still can come to time.

Strength's a shadow; Hope is madness;
Love, delusion; Friendship, sham;
Pleasure fades away to sadness,
None of these are worth a d---n.

There is naught on earth to please us;
All things at the crisis fail.
Friends desert us, bailiffs tease us--
(To such foes we give leg-bail).

But a stout heart still maintaining,
Quells the ills we all must meet,
And a spirit fear disdaining
Lays our troubles at our feet.

So we'll ne'er surrender tamely
To the ills that throng us fast.
If we must die, let's die gamely;
Luck may take a turn at last.



Bill Williams the old battler

Adam Lindsay Gordon - Google is your friend Bill

thanks Maureen glad to see that some are awake

bill the old battler

I suppose it looks a bit quaint to us that Gordon thought it was naughty to spell out damn.

Of course I'm awake Willum. A man who doesn't drink is always well and alert.

Oh Neville is that why you are sleepy and non alert, OOPS sorry OFFICER the devil made me write that so please don't kick me up the B**m


bill the old b

I'm not an officer, just an old pensioner, that's why I get a bit slow at times.

...yeah.....slow as an Exocet.........(glad I never did speed past you on patrol.......
xx

What ??

Where do you patrol Glenny? (I'd do an upside down one if I could remember how - they are so much cooler!)

HEATHER!... ....I meant Neville on patrol.......ooh the very thought!...& 'upside down?'...how do ya do that??