Barron Field Poems

Kanagaroo, Kangaroo!
Thou Spirit of Australia,
That redeems from utter failure,
From perfect desolation,
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WHETHER a ship's poetic? -- Bowles would own,
If here he dwelt, where Nature is prosaic,
Unpicturesque, unmusical, and where
Nature-reflecting Art is not yet born; --
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Here fix the tablet. This must be the place
Where our Columbus of the South did land.
He saw the Indian village on that sand
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I have been musing what our Banks had said
And Cook, had they had second sight, that here
(Where fifty years ago the first they were
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