Gold Glorious Gold

• William Darmody, Grade 4
• Poetry
• 2010

Gold glorious gold,
If only we could find gold!

People from around the world,
Came to Australia with their flags unfurled.

They fossicked and panned
All over the land,
In search of the metal that would help them to settle.

1851 arrived and Edward Hardgraves was the man,
He found gold in New South Wales and taught people how to pan.

It didn’t mater whether they came from England or china,
Life was not much fun as a miner.

From Bathurst to Bendigo and Buninyung to Ballarat,
The population exploded with a huge impact.

You would be one in a thousand as a gold seeker,
But if you struck it rich you would yell “EUREKA!”