Australian Literature Quotes

• He was hard and tough and wiry - just the sort that won't say die - There was courage in his quick impatient tread; And he bore the badge of gameness in his bright and fiery eye, And the proud and lofty carriage of his head.

  

  Banjo Paterson
  • Australia
  • Horses
  • Bush Literature

• There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around. That the colt from Old Regret had got away.

  

  Banjo Paterson
  • Poetry
  • Australia
  • Australian Literature

• And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars, And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended, And at night the wond’rous glory of the everlasting stars.

  

  Banjo Paterson
  • Poetry
  • Australia
  • Bush Literature