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A Christmas Hymn

Joseph Furphy 1843 (Yering, Victoria) – 1912 (Claremont)

The Seraph-song of morning's prime
That hail'd Messiah's birth,
The charter of a coming time
When Love shall rule the earth,
Rings from yon far Judaean hill —

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABABC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 168
Words 30
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
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Joseph Furphy

Joseph Furphy is widely regarded as the "Father of the Australian novel". He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903), regarded as an Australian classic. more…

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