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Quit-Rents single work   poetry   "They told me 'twas a glorious land,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1845... 1845 Quit-Rents
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Notes

  • 'A good poem on squatter's prosperity until the introduction of Gipps' land regulations.' - Webby

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Atlas vol. 1 no. 18 29 March 1845 Z1570715 1845 newspaper issue 1845 pg. 207
    Note:
    • Epigraph: So soft the scene so formed for joy, / So tell the tyrants that destroy. - Giaour
    • Published anonymously in this source.
Alternative title: Quit Rents
First line of verse: "They told me of a glorious land"
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Poems of a Life Lord Sherbrooke , London : Kegan Paul, Trench , 1884 Z1239560 1884 selected work poetry London : Kegan Paul, Trench , 1885 pg. 91-94
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  • 1840s
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