The popular satire entitled simply The Australian Poem, and satirizing the adjectival barrenness of the Australian Forces in the War, will be recalled:
A sunburnt bloody stockman stood,
And in a dismal, bloody mood
Apostrophized his bloody cuddy:
“This bloody moke’s no bloody good,
He doesn’t earn his bloody food,
Bloody! Bloody! Bloody!”
He leapt upon his bloody horse
And galloped off, of bloody course.
The road was wet and bloody muddy: