Here is the ecstasy Of sun-fed wine and song: Drink! it is melody Under a kurrajong.
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The young girl stood beside me. I Saw not what her young eyes could see: - Alight, she said, not of the sky Lives some where in the Orange Tree.
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Birth: | 22nd February, 1872 |
Death: | 12th May, 1942 |
Nationality: | Australian |
Profession: | Poet |
John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life John Shaw Neilson worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia's finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it.
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