Lionel Rose Australia's indigenous boxing great
He won the World Bantam-weight title from Fighting Harada in sixty eight
Far from his Hometown of Drouin in Victoria in Japan
The legend lives of this amazing man
On this the year of 2011 the sixteenth of May
The great Lionel Rose was farewelled today
By friends and family and dignitaries of the Nation and his home State
The end of a life of an amazing human being to celebrate
One never found to be wanting when put to the test
The great Lionel Rose fought all of the best
Bantam-weight boxers in the World in his glorious prime
Till he too did lose out to time
In his State funeral today for Lionel Rose the final bell
He received a hero's last farewell
The life from him may well be gone
But the legend of the man lives on.
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