Unfinished - individual poem - Gilmore, Lawson, Harpur, Kendall, Paterson

[2] An old man's son has left home to go drovng sheep along the Castlereagh.

While reviewing The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses a writer in The Sydney Morning Herald noted of this poem, among others, that it "finds the authentic transcript of the moods of inland Australia, the life of her people, and sometimes in their own words.

"[3] Another critic, reviewing the same collection in Freeman's Journal, commented that in reading the poem "we feel that indefinable charm which distinguishes all true poetry, but which defies analysis.

And while the "history and scoiology of the poem are simplistic at best", the "virtues of the ballad stanza appear" timeless.