In the Days When the World Was Wide & Other Verses

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was born on the 17th June 1867 in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of New South Wales, Australia. As a youth an ear infection had left him partially deaf and by fourteen he had lost his hearing completely. He immersed himself in books to make up for the difficulties of a classroom education but later failed to gain entry to a University. His first published poem was 'A Song of the Republic' in The Bulletin on 1st October 1887. This was quickly followed by other