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"The Man From Ironbark" is a poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson. It was first published in ''The Bulletin'' on 17 December 1892. The poem relates the experiences of a native man from the Bush, who reacts badly to a practical joke sprung on him by a mischievous barber from Sydney. While making his displeasure known,
The barber confesses that he was playing a joke, and the bushman, unconvinced, returns to Ironbark, where, due to his accounts of his Sydney experiences, "flowing beards are all the go". There are obvious echoes in the poem of the urban legend of the murdering barber - fictionalised in the penny dreadful ''The String of Pearls'' which featured the notorious Sweeney Todd. Ironbark was the earlier name for Stuart Town, a town in the Central West region of New South Wales. In 2004, a representative of The Wilderness Society posed as "The Ghost of the Man from Ironbark", a reference to the poem, to campaign for the protection of the remaining Ironbark woodlands in New South Wales and Queensland.〔(Ghost of 'Man from Ironbark' returns to haunt NSW Parliament House ), The Wilderness Society Australia Incorporated, 1 March 2004〕 ==External links== (詳細は"The Man from Ironbark" ) – full text of the poem *("The Man from Ironbark" ) – full text of the poem, with a glossary of terms *("The Man from Ironbark" ) – full text of the book ''The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses'' (including the poem "The Man from Ironbark") on Project Gutenberg Australia 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Man from Ironbark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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