id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 214 Lawson, Henry In the Days When the World Was Wide, and Other Verses .txt text/plain 29004 2322 97 They raised new stars on the silent sea that filled their hearts with awe; When men were gallant and ships were good -roaming the wide world round. We fight like women, and feel as much; the thoughts of our hearts we guard; Till like a pallid river flow the faces in the street -The old year went, and the new returned, in the withering weeks of drought, He tramped away from the shanty there, when the days were long and hot, When a man is better away from home, and dead to the world, Out Back. All day long in the flies and heat the men of the outside track 'Twas a better land to live in, in the days o' long ago. Do you think the bush was better in the 'good old droving days', The ghost of the man that I might have been is gone from my heart to-day; ./cache/214.txt ./txt/214.txt