Seaweed, Tussock and Fern



Emblems of storm and danger,
Spindrift and mountain stern,
Plants that welcome the stranger—
Seaweed, tussock, and fern.

Known to the world-wide ranger,
Who sailed on the “Never Return,”
Emblems of storm and danger—
Flax and tussock and fern.

Plants that welcome the stranger,
Sea-swept and driven astern,
Beloved by the wide-world ranger—
Seaweed, tussock, and fern.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AbAB abAb AbaB
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Characters 376
Words 60
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Henry Lawson

 · 1867 · Grenfell
 · 1922 · Sydney

Henry Lawson 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 was an Australian writer and poet Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period more…

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