POETICAL JUSTICE.

Our busiest thinkers are idle drones
In the eyes of the workaday world:
And the songs, that echo the angels' tones,
Are but leaves of the autumn, whirled
By the breath of the frost from up in the sky,
To the dullard who dwells in the vale,
And spurns them, as over his path they lie
In the lull between gale and gale.

D. B. W. S.

DEDICATION

CONTENTS.

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TO THE READER. By the Editor

CONCERNING AUSTRALIAN POETS. By A. Patchett

Martin

FRANCIS W. L. ADAMS, Queensland-

Love's Light and Tune. Poetical Works (Brisbane Ed.).

Agnosta. Poetical Works (Brisbane Ed.).

World-wounded. Poetical Works (Brisbane Ed.).

Dance-song. Poetical Works (Brisbane Ed.).

ALPHA CRUCIS, New South Wales-

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In the Uplands.-Morning. Songs of the Stars and Other

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EMMA FRANCES (Mrs. W. J.) ANDERSON, South Australia

(1842-1868)-

The Song of a Life. Colonial Poems

No Room for the Dead. Colonial Poems

Evening a Fragment. Colonial Poems

Thoughts on Ending the Year 1867. Colonial Poems

ANONYMOUS, South Australia-

A Voice from the Bush. South Australian Register.

AUSTRAL (Mrs. J. G. Wilson), New Zealand-

Compensation. The Australasian

The Forty-Mile Bush. The Australasian

A Spring Afternoon, New Zealand. The Australasian

Fairyland. The Australasian

AUSTRALIE (Mrs. Hubert Heron), New South Wales-

The Quiet Dust. The Balance of Pain
The Weatherboard Fall. The Balance of Pain
The Buddawong's Crown. The Balance of Pain

AUSTRALIS (Dr. Patrick Moloney), Victoria-

Sonnets-Ad Innuptam. An Easter Omelette

L. AVIS (C. Watkins), New Zealand-
O Te-Kapuka. New Zealand Paper

ARTHUR J. BAKER, South Australia-

If we should Meet. Incidents in my Life.

ALEXANDER BATHGATE, New Zealand-

Maungatua. New Zealand Paper

H. H. BLACKHAM, South Australia-
Forsaken Homes and Graves. Manuscript.
Etchings on the Air. Manuscript

E. B. (Mrs. J. A.) BODE, South Australia-
The Lubra. Original Poems

THOMAS BRACKEN, M.H.R., New Zealand (1843)—

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Old Bendigo. Lays of the Land of the Maori and the Moa

From the Waterfall. Lays of the Land of the Maori and

the Moa.

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66

In the Temple. Lays of the Land of the Maori and the Moa 67

Good-Night to Baby. Lays of the Land of the Maori and

the Moa.

Moa

69

Not Understood. Lays of the Land of the Maori and the

69

Mother's Grave. Lays of the Land of the Maori and the Moa
At Sunset. Lays of the Land of the Maori and the Moa

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72

JOHN BRIGHT, Carpentaria-

The Land of Dreams.

Wattle Blossoms and Wild Flowers.

73

(Sir) FREDERICK NAPIER BROOME, New Zealand and

West Australia (1842)—

A Temple Service. Poems from New Zealand

WILLIAM CARLETON, Jun., Victoria—

The Skipper's Bride. Australian Paper

(Miss) JENNINGS CARMICHAEL, Victoria-

A Wreath from Adam's Garden.

The Australasian

Tomboy Madge. The Weekly Times, Melbourne

The Bushrangers. The Australasian.

Fennel in the Wine. The Australasian

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87

90

92

(Miss) ETHEL CASTILLA, Victoria-

An Australian Girl. Melbourne Paper

95

ALFRED T. CHANDLER, Victoria and South Australia (1852)—

At Dusk. A Bush Idyll

In the City. A Bush Idyll

Curley. A Bush Idyll

96

MARCUS CLARKE, Victoria (1847-1881)—

In a Lady's Album. Sent by Patchett Martin

Ten Years Ago. Once a Month, Melbourne

NELLIE S. CLERK, Victoria-

At Eventide. Songs from the Gippsland Forest
I Slept. Songs from the Gippsland Forest .

VICTOR J. DALEY, New South Wales-

Life and Death. Victorian Review

J. F. DANIELL, Victoria-

The Jubilee of Melbourne. Rhymes for the Times

E. WILSON DOBBS, Victoria and Tasmania-

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106

108

III

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114

In Memoriam, Charles George Gordon. Tasmanian Paper 116

ALFRED DOMETT, C. M.G., New Zealand (1811–1887)—

The Prelude to Ranolf and Amohia. Ranolf and Amohia. 118

Miroa's Story. Ranolf and Amohia

Love and Nature Luxuriant. Ranolf and Amohia

Trees and the Tree-God. Ranolf and Amohia

The Haunted Mountain. Ranolf and Amohia

Lillie Raymond. Flotsam and Jetsam

A Christmas Hymn. Flotsam and Jetsam

LINDSAY DUNCAN (Mrs. T. C. Cloud), South Australia-

EUREKA (John Sheridan), Queensland-

Queensland. Queensland Paper .

DUGALD FERGUSON, New Zealand (1840)—

Hard Rows the World. Castle Gay, and other Poems

WILLIAM M. FERRAR, Tasmania-

BARRON FIELD, New South Wales-

Sonnet-On visiting the spot where Captain Cook and Sir

Joseph Banks first landed in Botany Bay. Field's New

South Wales.

ALEXANDER FORBES, Queensland-

The Shepherd's Grave. A Voice from the Bush.

WILLIAM FORSTER, New South Wales (1818-188-)—

Sonnets Written at the time of the Crimean War.

Poets and Prose Writers of New South Wales

Time was when ye Bore it Bravely. Midas

Hither walks the Winsome Stranger. Midas

Happiest who the Soul's Ideal. Midas

Our Existence must we Measure. Midas

The Love in her Eyes lay Sleeping. Midas

Cassandra. Midas

Barton's

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ISABELLA COCKBURN GILES, South Australia-
A Jubilee Hymn. Adelaide Paper

FRANCES TYRRELL GILL, Victoria-

Beyond the Shadows-Light. Australian Paper.
The Difference. Australian Paper

Spring's Messengers in Australia. Australian Paper.

KEIGHLEY GOODCHILD, Victoria-

Waif's Wedding. Who are You?
Too Late. Who are You?

ADAM LINDSAY GORDON, South Australia and Victoria
(1833-1870)—

All Night I've heard the Marsh-Frog's Croak. The Austra

lasian

An Exile's Farewell. Temple Bar

Lay me Low, My Work is Done. Manuscript