Editor's note:
Selections from Australian Poets, No. 10.
The following epistolary verses, by Charles Harpur, we think, exhibit a vein of fine poetry, which, if the writer had produced nothing else, ought to confer on him something of that distinction so ardently sought by the votaries of the Muses. Some years ago, when the verses on Sunrise, which we gave in this journal as our selection from Mr. H. Parkes, were written, they were sent in manuscript to Mr. Harpur; and this extemporaneous poetical epistle was received in acknowledgement. We are chiefly induced to publish it from a belief that it affords a happy evidence of the author's natural powers.