The Song of Old Joe Swallow

Writing in The Australian Town and Country Journal about the author's collection, In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses, a reviewer noted that this poem has "a swinging, haunting refrain, a melodious simplicity and pathos which rival his contemporary on the other side of the globe, Rudyard Kipling." ==Publication history==

After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin it was reprinted as follows: • In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1900 • Humorous Verses by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1941 • The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by Harry Heseltine, Penguin Books, 1972 • Poems of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone, Ure Smith, 1973 • A Campfire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Leonard Cronin, Lansdowne, 1984 • A Collection of Australian Bush Verse Peter Antill-Rose, 1989 • Our Country : Classic Australian Poetry : From Colonial Ballads to Paterson & Lawson edited by Michael Cook, Little Hills Press, 2002 ==Note==