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1 A Confession i "I pinched your Heenzo, Harry,", Mrs Stan Roberts , 1918 single work poetry humour
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 15 August vol. 39 no. 2009 1918; (p. 29) The Australian Town and Country Journal , 24 July vol. 98 no. 2529 1918; (p. 41) The Brisbane Courier , 7 September 1918; (p. 14) Auckland Star , 17 August 1918; (p. 17) The Advertiser , 7 September 1918; (p. 13) The Bulletin , 5 July vol. 65 no. 3360 1944; (p. 28)

Originally published in 1918 as part of an advertising campaign for Heenzo (Hean's Essence), a coughs, colds, croup and catarrh remedy. The advertisement, which appeared around Australia and New Zealand, comprised six poems - 'The Tragedy' (Henry Lawson), 'A Repudiation' (J. W. Gordon), 'A Confession' (Mrs Stan Roberts), 'Another Confession' (Harley Cohen) and 'Absolution - For the Woman' and 'Forgiveness - For the Strollers' (both by Lawson under the pseudonym, 'Arry).

The advertisement was republished 1934 and again in1944. Additional copy for the 1944 Bulletin reprint records:

Famous advertisement repeated after twenty-eight years in response to many request from all parts of Australia... The above poems ['The Tragedy' and 'A Repudiation'] caused Mrs Stan Roberts and Mr Harley Cohen to write the following poems, then Henry Lawson replied with 'Absolution' and 'Forgiveness' (5 July 1944, p.28).

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