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Issue Details: First known date: 1805... 1805 Ode to His Majesty's Birthday 1805
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Author note: Written at sea en route to Norfolk Island 4 June 1805.

[Grant was shipped from Port Jackson to Norfolk Island aboard the Lady Nelson as a result of being sentenced to 5 years' hard labour for "quoting the English Law, in a Letter to Governor King".
(Source: This Beauteous, Wicked Place : Letters and Journals of John Grant, Gentleman Convict. John Grant, edited by Yvonne Cramer.)]

Alternative title: Lines Written on His Majesty's Birthday, 1805
First line of verse: "The sickness and a second Exile keep"
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