Quote your favourite lines.

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Neville Briggs
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Re: Quote your favourite lines.

Post by Neville Briggs » Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:57 pm

Another great line is John O'Brien talking about the girl he admired in The Old Bush School

" And I used to swap her dinners at the old bush school " :)
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Re: Quote your favourite lines.

Post by Glenny Palmer » Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:28 pm

If you never go within, you will go without.
The purpose of my life is to serve as a warning to others.

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Re: Quote your favourite lines.

Post by croc » Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:36 pm

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Is that something like the cat that crept into the crypt, cra**ed and crept out again... it went within, but if it hadn't of done it might have gone without... have i got it... have I...

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Re: Quote your favourite lines.

Post by Glenny Palmer » Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:29 pm

Dumkoffen! Not even a cat can 'go without' a ....what you said...

Within thyself.... :roll: You know....where most are too scared to venture...dumkoffens....
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Re: Quote your favourite lines.

Post by croc » Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:42 pm

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Yeah.

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Re: Quote your favourite lines.

Post by Hully » Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:31 am

Though I am 'river' more than 'sea' - I have always loved this verse from Browning...

Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
and the sun looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was a path of gold for him,
and the need of a world of men for me.


so, so tops.

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Re: Quote your favourite lines.

Post by Neville Briggs » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:00 am

Great line Hully. What's the poem ?

Very true Marty. We await your rhythmic rhyme accordingly. ;)
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Re: Quote your favourite lines.

Post by Stephen Whiteside » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:37 am

The lines from Joe Pug's song relate very strongly to what Marty's surgeon told him.
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Re: Quote your favourite lines.

Post by Hully » Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:23 am

G'day Neville - 'Parting At Morning' is the poem and that it in its entirity.

h

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Re: Quote your favourite lines.

Post by David J Delaney » Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:04 pm

We must never let 'em take this life away
Old stock routes belong to one and all
Drovers, dreamers all agree, poets, Aborigines
We have a right to light a campfire on the road.

- John Williamson-

:) :)

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