Inez K.Hyland was born in Portland (Victoria), 1863; she was the daughter of T. F. Hyland and grand-daughter of Dr. Penfold, Magill (S.A.).
Inez was educated at Miss Kentish's School, Castlemaine,
She died in Magill, South Australia in 1892. Her works include:'In Sunshine and in Shadow' (Melbourne, 1893).
Where were you yesterday? In Gulistan,
With roses and the frenzied nightingales?
Rather would I believe you shining ran
With peaceful floods, where the soft voice prevails
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Pull down the old hut, d’ye say, girls,
That H.R.H. shan’t see
The common place that used to do,
Years by, for your mother and me?
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A cup of opal
Through which there glows
The cream of the pearl,
The heart of the rose;
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