Henry Lawson Father Poems

It was the King of Virland –
0 he was angry then –
That rode to crush rebellion
With twenty thousand men.
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MY father-in-law is a careworn man,
And a silent man is he;
But he summons a smile as well as he can
Whenever he meets with me.
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I worked with father in the bush
At splitting rails and palings.
He never was unkind to me,
Although he “had his failings:”
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