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Thread #51382 Message #2855758
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
04-Mar-10 - 08:13 AM
Thread Name: ADD: When the Children Come Home (Henry Lawson)
Subject: RE: ADD: When the Children Come Home (Henry Lawson)
Gerry, mine was an assumption - yours makes more sense as a word spoken by an Irish Australian woman. And then Susan found the exact word.
Susan, I think you're right about the poem evoking a rather than defining exactly.