Of all the gems in this wide world (No matter what their hue be), The one I find most beautiful Is certainly the emerald. - C. J. Dennis

Willy! O 'ell! 'Ere wus a flamin' pill! A moniker that alwus makes me ill.
"If it's the same to you, mum," I replies "I answer quicker to the name of Bill."

Now, a woman, she’s a woman. I ’ave fixed that for a cert.
They’re jist as like as rows uv peas from ’at to ’em uv skirt.
An’ then, they’re all so different, yeh find, before yeh’ve done,
The more yeh know uv all uv ’em the less yeh know uv one.

It is on record (in a booklet written by Guy Innes) that when Dennis decided to migrate from South Australia he telegraphed his father, "Send ten pounds. Going ", to which appeal the old man promptly replied, "Sending nothing. Go to hell!"