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Excerpt from When I Was King
Sydney Homing Herald He is known wherever the English language is spoken; he is the very god of the idolatry of Australian bushmen; he has written more and is better known than any other Australian Of his age. There is a musical lilt about his verses which makes these dwell in the memory, and there is in them also a revelation of truth and strength. When I Was King con tains work of which many a craftsman in words might well be proud lines that Walt Whitman - a master of rhythm when he liked, and a worshipper of it always - would have been proud to claim as his own.
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