Word: morante
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...refer to rivers. Your editor's letter was right in suggesting that the dryness of so much of the continent gives rivers a special significance. Every Australian knows Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River, but rivers also come up frequently in the poetry of Harry "Breaker" Morant. One of his best-known verses is At the River Crossing. Henry Lawson was another poet who wrote a lot about rivers. A stanza from his Song of the Darling River could apply to most of Australia's rivers. "I drown dry gullies and lave bare hills,/ I turn drought ruts...