While The Billy BoilsSearchAnd I watch the track on the Red Soil Plain.To the east when the day is late,For one who shall surely come back again,In summer's heat or in winter's rain,Limping under his swag in pain--For a wounded Anzac mate.
Poem
The Return
by Henry Lawson · 1916
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Canonical recordPOEM-000639
Copy-textProject Gutenberg Australia, Collected Poems of Henry Lawson (2022), anchor p261; selected digital copy-text retained exactly; wording and layout confirmed against Ironbark Resources under D-180
Source recordSRC-000066
Rights determinationRGT-000732
Text statusCANONICAL TEXT READY
TranscriptionDIPLOMATIC_D208_D180
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