Twenty First Birthday Celebration

National Year of Reading

Holroyd City Council

Library Service

2012

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We commemorate this celebration

in carefully chosen ways by remembering

Henry Lawson

and his classic

Roaring Days

He says –

The night too quickly passes

and we are growing old

so let us fill our glasses and toast the

Days of Gold ;

when finds of wondrous treasure

set all the South ablaze,

when you and I were faithful mates

all through the roaring days !

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Ah, then our hearts were bolder

and if Dame Fortune frowned

our swags we’d lightly shoulder

and tramp to other ground,

but golden days are vanished

and altered is the scene

the diggings are deserted

the camping grounds are green,

the flaunting flag of progress

is in the West unfurled

the mighty bush with iron rails

is tethered to the world.

Flaunting Flag of Progress.

There are many ways of reading

using books and other signs.

Our library is made of these,

through words and deft designs.

In this special year of reading,

to commemorate a bygone age

read a book for just enjoyment

 by turning every page.

The time too swiftly passes,

new ways are being taught.

Book lives are being censured,

the future may be fraught.

The

‘ flaunting flag ’

of progress is once again unfurled,

a web of information has us

tethered to the world.

©.Rimeriter.

2/2012.