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[Frontispiece: Off The Blue Bush By JP Bourke]

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To the West
and the People of the West
TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Golden State of Golden Hearts
So Warm, So True
So Generous in their Welcome of a Wanderer
TO THE MEMORY OF OLD MATES
Women and Men
The Fondest and the Best
Who, even for me, Made Life a Brave Adventure
and
TO MY MOTHER
With all the Love that I shall never speak
This poor token of reverence,
All I could, for all I would
I humbly offer.

John Philip Bourke.

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When I am dead
Bring me no roses white,
Nor lilies spotless
And immaculate,
But from the garden roses red,
Roses full blown
And by the noon sun kissed,
Bring me the roses
That my life has missed
When I am dead.
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[Illustration: Portrait of the Author]
J. P. BOURKE.

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OFF THE BLUEBUSH

VERSES FOR AUSTRALIANS
WEST AND EAST

BY
J. P. BOURKE
(“Bluebush”)

Edited by A. G. STEPHENS
Illustrated by NED WETHERED

SYDNEY
TYRRELL’S LIMITED
22 Castlereagh Street

1915.

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Copyright—First Edition. 2,000 copies, including 30 copies forSubscribers separately printed and bound and numbered and25 Superior copies separately bound and numbered, published1st August, 1915.—Wholly set in type and printed inAustralia by Morton’s Ltd., 75 Ultimo Road, Sydney.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

J. P. Bourke’s verses were contributed originally toThe Sun, Kalgoorlie—chiefly during the editorship ofMr. C. W. Andrée Hayward, for whose cultivated appreciationWestern rough-writers owe much—and to TheSunday Times, Perth.

The preliminary account of Bourke is reprinted, withsome revision, from a series of articles cont

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