Explore "The Old, Old Story and the New Order" by Henry Lawson on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The press of Australia and its unspeakable mediocrities have ever had a / tendency to belittle its own writers, both as regards their genius and / character. The dead have been spared less than the living.
THEY proved we could not think nor see, / They proved we could not write, / They proved we drank the day away / And raved through half the night. / They proved our stars were never up, / They've proved our stars are set, / They've proved we ne'er saw sorrow's cup, / And they're not happy yet.