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Leon Maxwell Gellert was an Australian poet. He was born in Walkerville, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. He was subjected to bullying by his father, a Methodist of Hungarian extraction, to which he reacted by learning self-defence at the YMCA. After an education at Adelaide High School, he embarked on a teaching career; first as a student-teacher at Unley High School then at the University of Adelaide's Teacher Training College. He enlisted with the Australian Imperial Forces 10th Battalion within weeks of the outbreak of the Great War and sailed for Cairo on 22 October 1914. He landed at Ari Burnu Beach, Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, was wounded and repatriated as medically unfit in June 1916. He attempted to re-enlist but was soon found out. He returned to teaching at Norwood Public School. During periods of inactivity he had been indulging his appetite for writing poetry. Songs of a Campaign was his first published book of verse, and was favourably reviewed by The Bulletin. Angus & Robertson soon published a new edition, illustrated by Norman Lindsay. His second, The Isle of San, also illustrated by Lindsay, was not so well received however.

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The Christmas Beetle
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Acceptance
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The Last to Leave
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The Moving Of The Shades
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The Jester in the Trench
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The Invocation Of Jealousy
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The Influence Of Lust
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The Husband
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The House Delirious
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The Hawk
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The Grey World
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The Gecko
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The Epileptic
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The Dreamer
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The Diggers
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The Death
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The Dead
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The Cry Of Mammon
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The Cross
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The Cripple
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The Consumptive
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The Coming Of War
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The Teacher
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War!
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To a Man who Wished to Die
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Through A Porthole
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These Men
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The Wrecked Aeroplane
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The Veteran
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The Trumpets Of Heaven
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The True Dawn
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The Three Concerned
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The Change
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The Speech Of Flattery
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The Soul Forsaken
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The Song’s End
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The Soldier
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The River
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The Riddle Of The Sphinx
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The Return
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The Retirement Of Mars
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The Old and the New
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Dejection
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Lost!
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Lemnos Visited
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Lemnos Revisited
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Lemnos Harbour
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Goodbye
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Fever!
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Ease. 1914
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Dreams of France
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Dreamlight
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Memories
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Cold!
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Bluebeard’s First Wife
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Blind!
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Before Action
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Armageddon
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Anzac Cove
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Again the Clash is East
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A Song
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A Night Attack
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Rendezvous
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The Bush Lover
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The Burial: In Memory of W.L.E.
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The Brothers
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The Blind Man
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The Australian Muse
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The Attack at Dawn
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The Advice Of Treachery
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The Christmas Beetle
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Sights
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A Book of Wordsworth
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Red
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Rapine
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Poppies
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Patience
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One who Died: In Memory of E.W.T.S.
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Now ‘Neath the Cool Stars
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Murder
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Mockery
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Memory
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