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Written
  
1888

Author
  
Henry Lawson

Country
  
Australia

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Language
  
English

Illustrator
  
John Anthony King

First published in
  
The Australian Town & Country Journal

Publication date
  
13 October 1888 (1888-10-13)

Read online
  
"Andy's Gone with Cattle" at Wikisource

Henry Lawson books
  
Henry Lawson Poems, In the Days When the World Wa, The fire at Ross's farm, When I Was King and Other

Andy s gone with cattle


Andy's Gone With Cattle is a poem by Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in The Australian Town & Country Journal on 13 October 1888.

Contents

The "Andy" of this poem re-appeared in a sequel, "Andy's Return", which was published in the same journal some six weeks later.

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Critical reception

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "[the poem] laments the departure of a member of a selection family to go overlanding cattle."

Trivia

  • Some of the best-known lines in the poem were revisions of Lawson's originals by David McKee Wright when the poem was being prepared for publication in Lawson's Selected Poems in 1918.
  • The "Andy" of this poem is not the same "Andy" as described in Lawson's poem "Middleton's Rouseabout".

    • Further publications

  • In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses by Henry Lawson (1896)
  • An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens (1907)
  • Selected Poems of Henry Lawson (1918)
  • Favourite Australian Poems edited by Ian Mudie (1963)
  • From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore (1964)
  • Poems of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone (1973)
  • Australia Fair: Poems and Paintings edited by Douglas Stewart (1974)
  • The World of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone (1974)
  • The Essential Henry Lawson edited by Brian Kiernan (1982)
  • A Treasury of Colonial Poetry (1982)
  • A Camp-Fire Yarn: Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Leonard Cronin (1984)
  • The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis (1984)
  • Henry Lawson: An Illustrated Treasury compiled by Glenys Smith (1985)
  • The Bushwackers Australian Song Book edited by Jan Wositzky and Dobe Newton (1988)
  • A Collection of Australian Bush Verse (1989)
  • A Treasury of Bush Verse by G. A. Wilkes (1991)
  • Australian Bush Poems (1991)
  • The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads edited by Elizabeth Webby and Philip Butterss (1993)
  • The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse compiled by Beatrice Davis (1996)
  • Classic Australian Verse edited by Maggie Pinkney (2001)

    • References

    Andy's Gone with Cattle Wikipedia
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