Andy's Gone with Cattle

Andy's Gone With Cattle is a poem by Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in The Australian Town & Country Journal on 13 October 1888.

The "Andy" of this poem re-appeared in a sequel, "Andy's Return", which was published in the same journal some six weeks later.

Critical reception
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "[the poem] laments the departure of a member of a selection family to go overlanding cattle."

Trivia

 * Some of the best-known lines in the poem were revisions of Lawson's originals by David McKee Wright when the poem was being prepared for publication in Lawson's Selected Poems in 1918.
 * The "Andy" of this poem is not the same "Andy" as described in Lawson's poem "Middleton's Rouseabout".

Further publications

 * In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses by Henry Lawson (1896)
 * An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens (1907)
 * Selected Poems of Henry Lawson (1918)
 * Favourite Australian Poems edited by Ian Mudie (1963)
 * From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore (1964)
 * Poems of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone (1973)
 * Australia Fair: Poems and Paintings edited by Douglas Stewart (1974)
 * The World of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone (1974)
 * The Essential Henry Lawson edited by Brian Kiernan (1982)
 * A Treasury of Colonial Poetry (1982)
 * A Camp-Fire Yarn: Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Leonard Cronin (1984)
 * The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis (1984)
 * Henry Lawson: An Illustrated Treasury compiled by Glenys Smith (1985)
 * The Bushwackers Australian Song Book edited by Jan Wositzky and Dobe Newton (1988)
 * A Collection of Australian Bush Verse (1989)
 * A Treasury of Bush Verse by G. A. Wilkes (1991)
 * Australian Bush Poems (1991)
 * The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads edited by Elizabeth Webby and Philip Butterss (1993)
 * The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse compiled by Beatrice Davis (1996)
 * Classic Australian Verse edited by Maggie Pinkney (2001)