The Australaise

Description

A marching song about the Australians guarding their own selves and their country from those people who want to invade their beloved Australia. The lyrical poem is usually worded with the lines, guard your loins, get a move on, set the enemy. As the soldiers prepare their gear for the march towards defending their nation. This is a much popular song and was originally intended as a joke to Arthur Adams.

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis or known as C. J. Dennis has written the poem, a marching song, The Australaise. He was an Australian poet renowned for his satirical poems such as The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke. He was one of the most prolific poets in history. He collaborated with two other famous poets, Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, he is highly regarded as Australia’s three great poets. Joseph Lyons, the Prime Minister of Australia, considered him to be commemorated as the “Australian Robert Burns”, when Dennis died.

The author was born in Auburn, South Australia. His father was a hotel owner and his mother had poor health. He was brought up by his aunts and he went to the Christian Brothers College, Adelaide. He worked as a clerk when he was 19 years old. That time, he was inspired to create poetry. His first poem was made under his pen name “The Best of Six”. Then later published other creative poems such as The Worker, which was published in his name, and The Bulletin, as “Den”.

He was also famous for his other works such as Backblock Ballads and Other Verses; The Moods of Ginger Mick; The Glugs of Gosh; Doreen; Digger Smith; Backblock Ballads and Later Verses; Jim of the Hills; A Book for Kids; Rose of Spadgers; The Singing Garden; and all other artsy works of Clarrie, as his aunts would call him when he was still young.
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