The Digger's Burial single work   poetry   "On the gory field of battle"
Issue Details: First known date: 1883... 1883 The Digger's Burial
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Soldiers die in battle and sailors at sea, but a miner at the height of his vigour digs his own grave, 'when the earth gives way above him,/ And falls in with deafening roar.' His mourners gather, where he is sleeping 'Neath Australia's dust-fleck'd sod.'

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Notes:
The poem is printed in an article by Archibald Forbes, the poet's brother.
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