Banjo Paterson A. B. Paterson
poet · New South Wales, Australia · 1864–1941
A poet who grew up on a station in the Australian outback, worked as a lawyer in Sydney and wrote ballads of drovers and the bush. "Banjo" was a pen name taken from a favourite horse.
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1889
I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall
"Clancy of the Overflow"
1889 · Envying his old friend Clancy, gone droving into the outback
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended, And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars.
"Clancy of the Overflow"
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