Cope quotes

Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye wauking yet? Or are your drums a-beating yet? If ye were wauking I wad wait To gang to the coals i' the morning.

- Adam Skirving
  'Johnnie Cope', chorus (commemorating the Battle of Australian poet and journalist. In1924 he published Thief of  the Moon    and   in   1926    Earth-Visitors.    Darlinghurst    Nights    and Morning  Glories  (1933)  celebrates  'The  Cross',  the  bohemian district  of  Sydney  where  he  lived for  most  of  his  life.  His  verse was    collected    in    One    Hundred    Poems:   1919^1939    (1944, reissued  as  Poems,  1957),  and  his  prose  in   Bread  and  Wine (1970).