Poem

Seaweed, Tussock, and Fern

by Henry Lawson · 1910

Emblems of storm and danger,

Spindrift and mountain stern,

Plants that welcome the stranger—

Seaweed, tussock, and fern.

Known to the world-wide ranger,

Who sailed on the “Never Return,”

Emblems of storm and danger—

Flax and tussock and fern.

Plants that welcome the stranger,

Sea-swept and driven astern,

Beloved by the wide-world ranger—

Seaweed, tussock, and fern.

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Copy-textHenry Lawson — The Skyline Riders and Other Verses; selected digital copy-text retained exactly; complete University of Sydney institutional edition independently corroborates substantive wording and meaningful selected-copy layout under D-180/D-208

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