"Said Hanrahan" is a poem written by the Australian bush poet John O'Brien, the pen name of Roman Catholic priest Patrick Joseph Hartigan.
[1] The poem's earliest known publication was in July 1919 in The Catholic Press,[2] appearing in 1921 in the anthology Around the Boree Log and Other Verses.
[1] The poem describes the recurrent natural cycle of droughts, floods and bushfires in rural Australia as seen by "Hanrahan", a pessimistic man of Irish descent.
"In God's good time" the rain stopped and spring arrived with "harvest-hopes immense".
The "knee-deep" grass, while good for feeding livestock, brought to mind the risk of bushfire.