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Rex Ingamells
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“This piece of hardwood, cunningly shaped, Was curved so evenly while piccaninnies gaped At a warrior who chipped at it with pieces of flint, And formed it by meticulous dint upon dint. Outside his wurly he sat beside a tree And chipped at it patiently for hours—not for me, But to kill the wallaby in the rocky pass, To kill the fat wild-turkey hiding in the grass.”
Rex Ingamells (1913–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Boomerang", in The Jindyworobaks, ed. Brian Elliott (University of Queensland Press, 1979), p. 4
“Into moorawathimeering, where atninga dare not tread, leaving wurly for a wilban, tallabilla, you have fled.”
Rex Ingamells (1913–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Moorawathimeering", st. 1, in The Jindyworobaks (1979), p. 11, with Elliott's paraphrase: "Into sanctuary in the land of the lost (a place of the dead, whose sacrosanct borders the tribesmen may not safely cross) you ha…
“Australia is a land that has no people, for those that were hers we have torn away, we who are not hers nor can be till love shall make us so and fill our hearts with her.”
Rex Ingamells (1913–1955) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Gangrened People", in At a Boundary (Adelaide: F. W. Preece Ltd., 1941), p. 11