A Bushman's Song
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| "A Bushman's Song" | |
|---|---|
| by A. B. Paterson | |
| Original title | Travelling Down the Castlereagh |
| Written | 1892 |
| First published in | The Bulletin |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Publication date | 24 December 1892 |
| Full text | |
 A Bushman's Song at Wikisource | |
"A Bushman's Song" (1892) is a poem by Australian poet A. B. Paterson.[1]
It was originally published in The Bulletin on 24 December 1892, with the title "Travelling Down the Castlereagh", and subsequently reprinted in a collection of the author's poems, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.[1]
While reviewing the poet's collection The Man From Snowy Rover and Other Verses a reviewer in The Sydney Morning Herald noted: "In poems such as 'The Travelling Post-office,' 'Clancy of the Overflow,' 'On Kiley's Run,' 'Black Swans,' 'In the Droving Days,' 'A Bushman's Song,' 'The 'Wind's Message,' 'The Daylight is Dying,' and a few others, one finds the authentic transcript of the moods of inland Australia, the life of her people, and sometimes in their own words."[2]
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "In 'A Bushman's Song' [Paterson] is the radical, putting the case for the ordinary drover and shearer against the squatter and the absentee landlord."[3]