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We are wondering why those fellows who are writing / cheerful ditties / Of the rosy times out droving, and the dust and / death of cities, / Do not leave the dreary office, ask a drover for a / billet, / And enjoy 'the views,' 'the campfires,' and 'the / freedom' while they fill it.
If it's fun to travel cattle or to picnic with merinoes, / Well the drover doesn't see it -- few poetic raptures / he knows. / As for sleeping on the plains beneath 'the pale / moon' always seen there, / That is most appreciated by the man who's never / been there.