Substance and Shadow single work   poetry   "William Lawson was a fine old fellow"
Issue Details: First known date: 1845... 1845 Substance and Shadow
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Notes

  • Air - 'Billy Taylor'.
  • Epigraph: Up to this moment no one possessed a finer shadow: but, now I look round, and, to my unspeakable astonishment, my shadow had departed. - Peter Schlemihl: The Shadowless Man
  • An editor's note, commenting on William Lawson, follows the poem.

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Subjects:
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1845
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