【英文原著类】In the Days When the World Was Wide(宽世之日).pdf

文档介绍：In the Days When the World Was Wide
In the Days When the
World Was Wide
By Henry Lawson
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In the Days When the World Was Wide
Preface
Most of the verses contained in this volume were first published in the
Sydney `Bulletin'; others in the Brisbane `Boomerang', Sydney `Freeman's
Journal', `Town and Country Journal', `Worker', and `New Zealand Mail',
whose editors and proprietors I desire to thank for past kindnesses and for
present courtesy in granting me the right of reproduction in book form.
`In the Days When the World was Wide' was written in Maoriland and
some of the other verses in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.
The dates of original publication are given in the Table of Contents.
Those undated are now printed for the first time.
HENRY LAWSON
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In the Days When the World Was Wide
To an Old Mate
Old Mate! In the gusty old weather, When our hopes and our
troubles were new, In the years spent in wearing out leather, I found you
unselfish and true -- I have gathered these verses together For the sake of
our friendship and you.
You may think for awhile, and with reason, Though still with a kindly
regret, That I've left it full late in the season To prove I remember you yet;
But you'll never judge me by their treason Who profit by friends -- and
forget.
I remember, Old Man, I remember -- The tracks that we followed are
clear -- The jovial last nights of December, The solemn first days of the
year, Long tramps through the clearings and timber, Short partings on
platform and pier.
I can still feel the spirit that bore us, And often the old stars will shine -
- I remember the last spree in chorus For the sake of that other Lang Syne,
When the tracks lay divided before us, Your path through the future and
mine.
Through the frost-wind that cut like whip-lashes, Through the ever-
blind haze of the drought -- And in fancy at times by the flashes Of light in
the darkness of doubt -- I have followed the tent po