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= [|C J Dennis] =


 * Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis**, better known as **C. J. Dennis**, (7 September 1876 - 22 June 1938) was an [|Australian] [|poet] known for his humorous poems

CJ Dennis was born in Auburn, South Australia on September 7, 1876. He started out as a journal editor and soon published a series of poems. Dennis has produced somewhere around 4,000 pieces of prose and poetry during his 40 or so years as a writer and poet. By 1917 Dennis was the most prosperous poet in Australian history. He wrote poems, proses, books, and even had some pieces made into screenplays. After his death in 1938, C J Dennis is still one of the top Australian poets in the country. = The Ant Explorer =

Once a little sugar ant made up his mind to roam-media type="youtube" key="bS_nODsU1ZA" height="390" width="640" To far away far away, far away from home. He had eaten all his breakfast, and he had his ma's consent To see what he should chance to see and here's the way he went Up and down a fern frond, round and round a stone, Down a gloomy gully where he loathed to be alone, Up a mighty mountain range, seven inches high, Through the fearful forest grass that nearly hid the sky, Out along a bracken bridge, bending in the moss, Till he reached a dreadful desert that was feet and feet across. 'Twas a dry, deserted desert, and a trackless land to tread, He wished that he was home again and tucked-up tight in bed. His little legs were wobbly, his strength was nearly spent, And so he turned around again and here's the way he went- Back away from desert lands feet and feet across, Back along the bracken bridge bending in the moss, Through the fearful forest grass shutting out the sky, Up a mighty mountain range seven inches high, Down a gloomy gully, where he loathed to be alone, Up and down a fern frond and round and round a stone. A dreary ant, a weary ant, resolved no more to roam, He staggered up the garden path and popped back home.