The North Western Courier (Narrabri, NSW : 1913 - 1955), Thursday 17 April 1924
The Swagman's Dream
Original, poem-written by Alf. Hammound; that received a prize at the Show and is a pupil of the Convent school,
Away in the lonely ranges
a poor old swagman lay
life with all its changes
Seemed to him to say .
Pleasure quickly passes
Life is very short .
Time goes on forever .
Trifles matter nought.
He saw himself a boy,
Besides his father's knee,
His mother calls her Roy
His pretty curls to see.
His little sister Nell,
So gentle and so sweet
Ah Who can tell,
If in heaven we shall meet
The scene has changed again
Upon the road he tramps,
friendless, poor and old,
And on the hill he camps.
A tear drops forms his eye
And falls Upon the sand
The owl whoops a cry
That echoes through the land.
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