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Introduction - A Glimpse of Boyhood

by Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson

"Boys out there by the western creeks,
Who hurry away from school,
To climb the spurs of the breezy peaks,
Or dive in the shaded pool"




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I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
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