{"product_id":"2940012026590","title":"When I Was King","description":"This ebook edition has been proofed and corrected for errors and compiled to be read with without errors!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ean excerpt from the poem:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWHEN I WAS KING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SECOND time I lived on earth\u003cbr\u003e    Was several hundred years ago;\u003cbr\u003eAnd--royal by my second birth--\u003cbr\u003e    I know as much as most men know.\u003cbr\u003eI was a king who held the reins\u003cbr\u003e    As never modern monarch can;\u003cbr\u003eI was a king, and I had brains,\u003cbr\u003e    And, what was more, I was a man!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCalled to the throne in stormy times,\u003cbr\u003e    When things were at their very worst,\u003cbr\u003eI had to fight--and not with rhymes--\u003cbr\u003e    My own self and my kindred first;\u003cbr\u003eAnd after that my friends and foes,\u003cbr\u003e    And great abuses born of greed;\u003cbr\u003eAnd when I'd fairly conquered those,\u003cbr\u003e    I ruled the land a king indeed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI found a deal of rottenness,\u003cbr\u003e    Such as in modern towns we find;\u003cbr\u003eI camped my poor in palaces\u003cbr\u003e    And tents upon the plain behind.\u003cbr\u003eI marked the hovels, dens and drums\u003cbr\u003e    In that fair city by the sea.\u003cbr\u003eAnd burnt the miles of wretched slums\u003cbr\u003e    And built the homes as they should be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cross-Roads\u003cbr\u003eWhen I Was King\u003cbr\u003eThe Author's Farewell to the Bushmen\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Bush\u003cbr\u003eHeed Not\u003cbr\u003eThe Bush Girl\u003cbr\u003e'G.S.,' or the Fourth Cook\u003cbr\u003eJack Cornstalk\u003cbr\u003eThe Men Who Made Australia\u003cbr\u003eThe Bulletin Hotel\u003cbr\u003eSacred to the Memory of \"Unknown\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Shearers\u003cbr\u003e'Knocking Around'\u003cbr\u003eThe Shearer's Dream\u003cbr\u003eThe Never-Never Country.\u003cbr\u003eWith Dickens\u003cbr\u003eThe Things We Dare Not Tell\u003cbr\u003eThe Drums of Battersea\u003cbr\u003eAs Far As Your Rifles Cover\u003cbr\u003eGipsy Too\u003cbr\u003eThe Wander-Light\u003cbr\u003eGenoa\u003cbr\u003eThe Tracks That Lie by India\u003cbr\u003eSay Good-Bye When Your Chum Is Married\u003cbr\u003eThe Separation\u003cbr\u003eRuth\u003cbr\u003eThe Cliffs\u003cbr\u003eBourke\u003cbr\u003eThe Stringy-Bark Tree\u003cbr\u003eThe Bush Fire\u003cbr\u003eThe Bill of the Ages\u003cbr\u003eWaratah and Wattle\u003cbr\u003eMy Land and I\u003cbr\u003eThe Men Who Live It Down\u003cbr\u003eWhen Your Pants Begin Yo Go\u003cbr\u003eRobbie's Statue","brand":"Leila's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069069148400,"sku":"2940012026590","price":1.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012026590_p0.jpg?v=1763552020","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012026590","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}