Joseph Furphy Good Poems

  • 1.
    When the great Creator fashion'd us, and saw that we were good,
    He commission'd us to dominate the planet as it stood.
    But His ordinance meets denial still, and peace remains unknown,
    For the Boer is always with us, calling certain lands his own.
    ...
  • 2.
    (From 'An Idyll of the Wimmera.')

    On the geodetic line, where the parish boundaries join
    At a level and interminable lane
    ...
  • 3.
    Though some good folks may take it ill,
    As trifling with parsonic frill,
    Thus saith the Lord to Jim and Bill,
    In admonition stern and straight:â??
    ...
  • 4.
    In spite of his imposing plea,
    A freeman whom the truth makes free
    Is often fairly up a tree,
    And marvels why it should be thus.
    ...
  • 5.
    (A Romance.)

    December 11th, 1867.

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  • 6.
    You argue â?? as sympathy governs your bias â??
    That Wisdom distributes the capon and crust,
    Indulging the sinful, and stinting the pious,
    Or starving the wicked, and fattening the just.
    ...
  • 7.
    Opposed to Jewish Temple-rites,
    Strange to the lore of Greece,
    That message comes from starry heights,
    A key to lasting Peace.
    ...
Total 7 Good Poems by Joseph Furphy

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With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
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And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
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