Author

Lawson, Henry

Title

Freedom on the wallaby

In

The Worker [Queensland]

Imprint

16 May 1891, p. 8

Abstract

Poem decribing Freedom's struggle in Australia, ending with the famous lines: We'll make the tyrants feel the sting / O' those that they would throttle ; / They needn't say the fault is ours / If blood should stain the wattle.

Related entries

Cultural Forms

• Poetry

Institutions

• The Worker [Queensland]

People

• Lawson, Henry (1867 - 1922)

Subjects

• Radical Nationalism

See also

• Socialism - 1800s