"Mulga Bill's Bicycle" is an Australian poem written in 1896 by Banjo Paterson.

The poem is a ballad. Each line is a fourteener, having fourteen syllables and seven iambic feet.

It tells the tragic tale of Mulga Bill, a man whose pride in his riding skill causes him to purchase, ride and crash a bicycle. Although Mulga Bill claims expertise in riding all things his ineptitude and subsequent accident suggest that he may only know how to ride a horse.

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Our voices united,
The peril undone
We stand tall together,
But we've only begun.

Our freedoms are threatened,
Our lives on the line
We don't have tomorrow,
Today is our time.

Let our unity thunder,
Till power and greed
Both crumple before,
The depth of our need.

Let our unity Clamor,
For all who have died
Because no one would hear them,
Or come to their side

The whole world is watching,
To see where we stand
The whole wo... Read More

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