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[[File:Adam Lindsay Gordon 2.jpeg|thumb|Onward onward! must we [[travel]]?<br/> When will come the goal? <br /> Riddle I may not unravel,<br/> Cease to vex my [[soul]].]]
'''[[w:Adam Lindsay Gordon|Adam Lindsay Gordon]]''' ([[October 19]], [[1833]] – [[24 June]] [[1870]]) was an [[Australia|Australian]] [[poet]], [[w:jockey|jockey]] and [[politician]].

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==Quotes==
[[File:Adam Lindsay Gordon - Melbourne monument.jpg|right|thumb|[[Life]] is mostly froth and bubble; <br /> Two things stand like [[stone]], <br /> [[Kindness]] in another's [[trouble]], <br /> [[Courage]] in your own.]]

*Onward onward! must we travel?<br/> &nbsp;&nbsp; When will come the goal?<br/> Riddle I may not unravel,<br/> &nbsp;&nbsp; Cease to vex my soul.
** ''[[s:Sea Spray and Smoke Drift/Finis Exoptatus|Finis Exoptatus]]''

* Question not, but [[live]] and [[labour]] <br /> Till yon goal be won, <br /> [[Helping]] every feeble neighbour, <br />  Seeking help from none; <br /> Life is mostly froth and bubble; <br /> Two things stand like [[stone]], <br /> [[Kindness]] in another's [[trouble]], <br /> [[Courage]] in your own.
** ''[[s:Sea Spray and Smoke Drift/Finis Exoptatus|Finis Exoptatus]]''
** Variant: Many quoters, including ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'' (1919), have "in our own" instead of "in your own".

* He never gave me a chance to speak,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;And he call’d her—worse than a dog—<br>The girl stood up with a crimson cheek,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;And I fell’d him there like a log.{{pb}}I can feel the blow on my knuckles yet—<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;He feels it more on his brow.<br>In a thousand years we shall all forget<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;The things that trouble us now.
** "After the Quarrel", as anthologised in ''The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse'' (1912), p. 507, no. 373

* Let me slumber in the hollow where the wattle blossoms wave,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;With never stone or rail to fence my bed;<br>Should the sturdy station children pull the bush flowers on my grave,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;I may chance to hear them romping overhead.
** "The Sick Stockrider", in ''Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes'' (1870)

==External links==
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*[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext95/agord10.txt Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon (plain text)]
*[http://www.adamlindsaygordon.org The Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee]
*[http://www.brightoncemetery.com/HistoricInterments/150Names/gordona.htm Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)] Gravesite at Brighton General Cemetery (Vic).

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