Byron And Censorship Poem by Douglas Scotney

Two years easy for Australians to remember,
1770 and 1788, *
happen to be
the years of birth of Two
whose names begin with B:
Byron*, born in '88;
Beethoven in seventy.

The former's life
overlapped Catherine's* a bit,
about whom he said,
'...glory still adores,
As greatest of all sovereigns and w- - s.'

*1770- james cook arrived in 'australia'.
*1788- arthur phillip arrived to settle 'australia'.
*byron was 4 days old when phillip set foot on botany bay, south of sydney harbour,26 January 1788.
*catherine the great of russia (1729-96)