Edward George Dyson was born in March 1865 at Morrisons Diggings, near Ballarat in  Victoria, spending much of his early life roving about mining camps and farms. He was the son of a mining engineer who had migrated to Australia in 1852 and as a boy of 9 soon learned to share his father’s love of bushmen and miners. The experiences gained from this time of his life was possibly the inspiration for some of his poetry  as an example The Old Whim Horse (whim being a type of windlass which was used to bring up the ore.)  http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/21070-Edward-Dyson-The-Old-Whim-Horse   Edward began work at 12 as an assistant to a travelling draper and later worked in a min