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To an Old Mate
Old Mate! In the gusty old weather,

In the Days When the World was Wide
The world is narrow and ways are short, and our lives are dull and slow,
[Dec. -- 1894]

Faces in the Street
They lie, the men who tell us in a loud decisive tone
[July -- 1888]

The Roaring Days
The night too quickly passes
[Dec. -- 1889]

`For'ard'
It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep,
[Dec. -- 1893]

The Drover's Sweetheart