Classic Poem

A city-bushman bold was he,
His name was Billy Baggs;
He came down from the Hawkesbury
And courted Sarah Knaggs;
He'd courted long and cautiously,
As Hawkesbury natives do—
A produce store in Sussex Street
Was what he had in view.

And Sally Knaggs was country born,
A freckled face and sweet,
Her father dealt in hay and corn
Down here in Sussex Street.
He'd battled with the “raw'uns” in
The peaceful days gone by,
When Billy Baggs was small and thin;
So Billy Baggs was shy. . . .