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May 4, 2012 · The Overflow = the name of a rural station; “The Overflow” was referred to in several of Banjo Paterson’s poems (“Clancy of The Overflow”, “The Man From Snowy River”, “Old Australian Ways”, “The Silent Shearer” and “The Travelling Post Office”); Paterson, in an annotation to a letter from Angus & Robertson (18 January ...
Sounds Aussie to me - I imagine clancy is a shepard or drover of cattle and he would not like sitting in a dingy office. Some jelosy of the writer toward Clancy of the Overflow. I really like the fifth verse - it suggsts why the author would prefer to be on the Overflow as well. Nicely structured and thoughtful - full of imagery.
Clancy of the Overflow at Wikisource. " Clancy of the Overflow " is a poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, on 21 December 1889. [1] The poem is typical of Paterson, offering a romantic view of rural life, and is one of his best-known works. The poem is written in eight stanzas of four lines ...
- Banjo Paterson
- 1889
I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall, And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all. And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle Of the tramways and the buses making hurry ...
CLANCY OF THE OVERFLOW - A.B. "Banjo" Paterson I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago, He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, Just "on spec", addressed as follows: "Clancy, of The Overflow".
Clancy of the Overflow. I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago, He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, Just “on spec”, addressed as follows: “Clancy, of The Overflow”. And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,
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Clancy of the Overflow is a poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, on 21 December 1889. The poem is typical of Paterson, offering a romantic view of rural life, and is one of his best-known works. Clancy of the Overflow was inspired by an experience Banjo Paterson had while he was working as a lawyer.
