47 Quotes by Henry Lawson

If you're proud because of fortune or the clever things you do, then i'll play no second fiddle; I'm a prouder man than you.

The night too quickly passes / And we are growing old, / So let us fill our glasses / And toast the Days of Gold; / When finds of wondrous treasure / Set all the South ablaze, / And you and I were faithful mates / All through the roaring days!

And when the old man saw him come , well you know how we welcomed him,

And welcomed him and hugged his dad and filled the wine cup to the brim.

Seen him welcomed with effusion by a dozen toney gents.

Masseur and manicurist / Or anything by chance / They vilify their husbands— / And draw the maintenance.

A roving, roaming life is mine, / Ever by field or flood — / For not far back in my father's line / Was a dash of the Gipsy blood.

When you’ve knocked about the country — been away from home for years; / When the past, by distance softened, nearly fills your eyes with tears — / You are haunted oft, wherever or however you may roam, / By a fancy that you ought to go and see the folks at home.

Oh, ride and ride, you riders, / Who rode ere I was born, / While blink-and-blink the star-dust / That blinks before the morn.