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Bernard O'Dowd

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Australian poet and activist

Person · Open Library

Born
1866
Died
1953
Works
10

Top works

  • Victorian company law
  • Alma Venus!
  • The bush
  • Dominions of the boundary
  • Fantasies

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1961-06-14

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Quotes

  • Are you for Light, and trimmed, with oil in place,Or but a Will o’ Wisp on marshy quest?A new demesne for Mammon to infest?Or lurks millennial ’neath your face?
  • And our reward? In this wan land,  In clientage of Greed,Despised, polluted, maimed and banned,  To wander and—to breed.
  • They teach and live the Golden Rule  Of Young Democracy:—‘That culture, joy and goodliness  Be th’ equal right of all:That Greed no more shall those oppress  Who by the wayside fall:‘That each shall share what all men sow:  That colour, caste’s a lie:That man is God, however low—  Is man, however high.’
  • Ah, Love, the earth is woe’s  And sadly helpers needs:And, till its burden goes,  Our work is—where it bleeds.
  • When, comrades, we thrill to the message of speaker in highway or hall,The voice of the poet is reaching the silenter poet in all:And again, as of old, when the flames are to leap up the turrets of Wrong,Shall the torch of the New Revolution be lit from the words of a Song!
  • This is a rune I ravelled in the still,  Arrogant stare of an Australian cow.

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