To Doctor Lang

Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)



Little, perhaps, thou valuest verse of mine—
       Little hast read of what my hand has wrought,
Yet I with thy brave memory would entwine
       The muse’s amaranths. For thou well hast fought
       For freedom; well her sacred lessons taught;
Well baffled wrong; and delved with far design
Into those elements where treasures shine
       Excelling those wherewith our hills are fraught.
And when thy glorious grey head shall make
       One spot all-hallowed for the coming days—
Tombed in the golden land for whose sole sake
       With labour thou hast furrowed all thy ways,—
       Well a young nation shall thy worth appraise
Even through the grief which then shall o’er thee break

 

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
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Words 113
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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