Robert Henderson Croll

Robert Henderson Croll (5 January 1869 – 18 October 1947) was an Australian writer, poet, bushwalker, and public servant.

Quotes

• Whalers, damper, swag and nosebag, Johnny-cakes and billy-tea,
  Murrumburrah, Meremendicoowoke, Yoularbudgeree,
  Cattle-duffers, bold bushrangers, diggers, drovers, bush race-courses,
  And on all the other pages horses, horses, horses, horses.
  • "Australia (In Contemporary Literature)", in Bookfellow, no. 5 (31 May 1899), p. 21

• As I came over Livingstone
     The day was like a flame,
  But suddenly I saw below,
  Far and far and far below,
  The shining roofs of Omeo,
     And said its singing name.
  • "Omeo and Out Again (A Christmas Outing)", in The Open Road in Victoria: Being the Ways of Many Walkers, 2nd ed. (Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens Ltd., 1928)

• They ain't no blooming angels
     And they ain't no blackguards, too,
  But simply human beings
     Most remarkable like you.
  • Paraphrasing Kipling's "Tommy", in Wide Horizons: Wanderings in Central Australia, 2nd ed. (1937), ch. 17

See also

• Blamire Young

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Robert Henderson Croll on Wikipedia