{"id":601,"date":"2014-09-07T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/?download=1615"},"modified":"2017-08-22T09:40:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T09:40:36","slug":"1615","status":"publish","type":"download","link":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/?download=1615","title":{"rendered":"The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/images\/snowyriver.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family: Impact; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/font><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"3\">It is not so easy to write ballads descriptive of the bushland of Australia as on light consideration would appear.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"3\">Reasonably good verse on the subject has been supplied in sufficient quantity. But the maker of folksongs for our newborn nation requires a somewhat rare combination of gifts and experiences.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"3\">Dowered with the poet&#39;s heart, he must yet have passed his &#39;wander-jaehre&#39; amid the stern solitude of the Austral waste &mdash; must have ridden the race in the back-block township, guided the reckless stock-horse adown the mountain spur, and followed the night-long moving, spectral-seeming herd &#39;in the droving days&#39;.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"3\">Amid such scarce congenial surroundings comes oft that finer sense which renders visible bright gleams of humour, pathos, and romance, which, like undiscovered gold, await the fortunate adventurer.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"3\">That the author has touched this treasure-trove, not less delicately than distinctly, no true Australian will deny.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"3\">In my opinion this collection comprises the best bush ballads written since the death of Lindsay Gordon.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"><font size=\"4\"><strong>This collection of adventurous verses can be yours in PDF format for just $1.00!<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","edd-categories":[42],"edd-tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","download","type-download","status-publish","hentry","download_category-poems-poetry","edd-download","edd-download-cat-poems-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/download"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7798,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/601\/revisions\/7798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"download_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fedd-categories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"download_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fedd-tags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}