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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"




Quotes of the Day

vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return

• George Eliot



Poems of the Day
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    One Interpretation of Your Silence
    by Bob Hicok
    Probably I hurt your aesthetic feelings. How I said a thing, how I held a lamp to the night. These should walk without us— words, the dark—is perhaps your view of existence. I can’t know, you provide ...