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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 3 Songs for Charles Darwin
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The Bush i "begins with languor,", John Forbes , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 154 1999; (p. 52-53) Collected Poems : 1970-1998 2001; (p. 251-254)
The First Fleet Asleep i "still sitting &", John Forbes , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 154 1999; (p. 53-54) Collected Poems : 1970-1998 2001; (p. 254-255)
The Beach i "dropped ice-", John Forbes , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 154 1999; (p. 54) Collected Poems : 1970-1998 2001; (p. 256)

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Dedication: for Daniel Syson
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Epigraph: 'Pasture everywhere is so thin that settlers have already pushed far into the interior: moreover the country further inland becomes extremely poor. Agriculture can never succeed on an extended scale: therefore, as far as I can see, Australia must ultimately depend on being the centre of commerce for the Southern Hemisphere, and perhaps on her future manufactories. Possessing coal, she always has the motive power at hand. From the habitable country along the coast, and from her English extraction, she is sure to be a maritime nation.' Charles Darwin

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