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If I Were Rich single work   poetry   "Oh, what a time I'd have, be sure!"
Issue Details: First known date: 1928... 1928 If I Were Rich
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A contemplation of behaviours and activities enabled by wealth, including not going to school, taking holidays, reading only for pleasure, feasting with friends, publish a newspaper for boys, travel in space, and '[b]low Bolsheviks to kingdom come'!

Notes

  • Contribution by an unnamed school student, as stated in short introduction to poem.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Southern Seas Story Book Lillian M. Pyke (editor), Melbourne : Alexander McCubbin , 1920-1929 Z1367282 1920-1929 anthology children's fiction poetry prose children's Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1928 pg. 54
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