Henry Lawson

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A Backward Glance

IT IS well when you?ve lived in clover, To mourn for the days gone by? Would I live the same life over Could I live again? Not I! But, knowing the false from the real, I would strive to ascend: I would seek out my boyhood?s ideal, And follow it to the end.