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-“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,  
-In accents most forlorn,  
-Outside the church, ere Mass began,  
-One frosty Sunday morn.  
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-The congregation stood about,  
-Coat-collars to the ears,  
-And talked of stock, and crops, and drought,  
-As it had done for years.  
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-“It’s looking crook,” said Daniel Croke;  
-“Bedad, it’s cruke, me lad,  
-For never since the banks went broke  
-Has seasons been so bad.”  
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-“It’s dry, all right,” said young O’Neil,  
-With which astute remark  
-He squatted down upon his heel  
-And chewed a piece of bark.  
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-And so around the chorus ran  
-“It’s keepin’ dry, no doubt.”  
-“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,  
-“Before the year is out.”  
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-“The crops are done; ye’ll have your work  
-To save one bag of grain;  
-From here way out to Back-o’-Bourke  
-They’re singin’ out for rain.  
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-“They’re singin’ out for rain,” he said,  
-“And all the tanks are dry.”  
-The congregation scratched its head,  
-And gazed around the sky.  
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-“There won’t be grass, in any case,  
-Enough to feed an ass;  
-There’s not a blade on Casey’s place  
-As I came down to Mass.”  
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-“If rain don’t come this month,” said Dan,  
-And cleared his throat to speak —  
-“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,  
-“If rain don’t come this week.”  
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-A heavy silence seemed to steal  
-On all at this remark;  
-And each man squatted on his heel,  
-And chewed a piece of bark.  
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-“We want an inch of rain, we do,”  
-O’Neil observed at last;  
-But Croke “maintained” we wanted two  
-To put the danger past.  
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-“If we don’t get three inches, man,  
-Or four to break this drought,  
-We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,  
-“Before the year is out.”  
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-In God’s good time down came the rain;  
-And all the afternoon  
-On iron roof and window-pane  
-It drummed a homely tune.  
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-And through the night it pattered still,  
-And lightsome, gladsome elves  
-On dripping spout and window-sill  
-Kept talking to themselves.  
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-It pelted, pelted all day long,  
-A-singing at its work,  
-Till every heart took up the song  
-Way out to Back-o’-Bourke.  
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-And every creek a banker ran,  
-And dams filled overtop;  
-“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,  
-“If this rain doesn’t stop.”  
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-And stop it did, in God’s good time;  
-And spring came in to fold  
-A mantle o’er the hills sublime  
-Of green and pink and gold.  
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-And days went by on dancing feet,  
-With harvest-hopes immense,  
-And laughing eyes beheld the wheat  
-Nid-nodding o’er the fence.  
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-And, oh, the smiles on every face,  
-As happy lad and lass  
-Through grass knee-deep on Casey’s place  
-Went riding down to Mass.  
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-While round the church in clothes genteel  
-Discoursed the men of mark,  
-And each man squatted on his heel,  
-And chewed his piece of bark.  
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-“There’ll be bush-fires for sure, me man,  
-There will, without a doubt;  
-We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,  
-“Before the year is out.”  
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-[Editor- This poem by John O’Brien was published in Around the Boree Log and Other Verses, 1921.]  
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-John O’Brien. Around the Boree Log and Other Verses, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1921  
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-Editor’s notes -  
-bedad = an Irish exclamation, a euphemism for “By God”  
-cruke = presumably “crook”, being unwell or not good (such as in the Australian colloquialism “Things are crook in Tallarook”)  
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-This poem was published in the The Euroa Advertiser with the comment: “The following humorous verses are copied from “The Catholic Press,” and were contributed by an erstwhile Tocumwal parish priest, who writes under the name of “John O’Brien”:” [see: “Said Hanrahan”, The Euroa Advertiser (Euroa, Vic.), Friday 29 August 1919, page 4]  
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-Filed Under -  poetry  
-Tagged With -  Around the Boree Log and Other Verses (John O’Brien 1921), Editor’s notes, John O'Brien (1878-1952) (author), poem, recommended poetry, SourceIACLibrary  
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-Words copied from https://www.australianculture.org/said-hanrahan-john-obrien/ on 21 July 2025.  
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