Livin' an' lovin'; learnin' to fergive The deeds an' words … - C. J. Dennis

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Livin' an' lovin'; learnin' to fergive The deeds an' words of some un'appy bloke
Who's missed the bus—so 'ave I come to live, An' take the 'ole mad world as 'arf a joke.

C. J. Dennis

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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis (7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938), better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel (1915). Alongside his contemporaries and occasional collaborators Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, Dennis helped popularise in literature, earning him the title "the laureate of the ".

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If it’s needful to hold, that is easily told— Be the scruff of his neck!" said she.

We done poor Muvver proud when she went out— A slap-up send-orf, trimmed wiv tears an' crape.

Women is strange. You take my tip; I’m wise. I know enough to know I'll never know
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