Barron Field Poems

Kanagaroo, Kangaroo!
Thou Spirit of Australia,
That redeems from utter failure,
From perfect desolation,
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WHETHER a ship's poetic? -- Bowles would own,
If here he dwelt, where Nature is prosaic,
Unpicturesque, unmusical, and where
Nature-reflecting Art is not yet born; --
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GOD of this Planet! for the name best fits
The purblind view, which men of this "dim spot"
Can take of THEE, the GOD Of Suns and Spheres!
What desert forests, and what barren plains,
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Here fix the tablet. This must be the place
Where our Columbus of the South did land.
He saw the Indian village on that sand
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I have been musing what our Banks had said
And Cook, had they had second sight, that here
(Where fifty years ago the first they were
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