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‘We come from Shoreditch
Gorbals
Bishopsgate
Clerkenwell, Spitalfields and old St. Giles,
The ladies on the town and the gents on the dip..
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In early Australia, convicts were allowed to choose their wives
from the female convicts in the factory.
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The First Fleet was that which carried the first
convicts to Australia to found a new colony.
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The convict ships carrying felons to Australia
were a national disgrace....
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One of a series of Australian History poems..
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‘I break my back on many a rock,
And tramp for many a mile,
With an iron clamp on my weary leg
And a chain that frets for a while,
A road to..
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In the 60's I worked in a Repatriation Hospital, and got the chance
to talk to a lot of WWI diggers. This must be an echo of those days...
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Written back in 1971, but still pertinent today.
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I dripped my blood on the final word
To give it a mark of mine,
And show that the words you’ve read tonight
Are the words of a bloody time.
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All my life was laid to waste the
Night I wrote to you in haste, unseeing
In the spell of what was best,
But sorrow and a wild regret will
Nev..
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