Poems (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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This Edition contains several additional poems. The Stanzas entitled The Lord's Day having been published in the Sydney Mail, the proprietors of that Journal have kindly given permission for their inclusion in these pages. The Sonnet on Burns was published on Saturday, 20th July 1912, both in the Sydney Morning Herald and in the Daily Telegraph (sydney). With reference to the poem Old Government House, Windsor, n.s.w. (included in the 2nd and 3rd Editions), it has been pointed out by a friendly critic (mr. Wm. Freame, Member of the Australian His torical Society) that old Government House was built, not as stated in the poem by Governor Macquarie (1810 to 1821) but by Governor Hunter (1795 to The Author readily makes this necessary correction, and in explanation desires to say that he was Rector of St Matthew's, Windsor, from 1890 to 1893, and that the statements he has put into blank verse concerning Macquarie's association with the Hawkesbury District he had derived from several of the oldest inhabitants.

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