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Issue Details: First known date: 1915... 1915 The British Poet's Hymn of Love to Germania
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Notes

  • 'This poem is the concluding portion of a complete Work entitled "The Kaiser's Dream"' (dedication page). Complete work not traced.
  • Epigraph: 'No great genius was ever without some mixture of imprudence, nor can anything grand or superior to the voice of common mortals be spoken except by the agitated soul'. Aristotle
  • Dedication: To His Majesty, King George V., as the direct earthly representative of heaven, this volume is inscribed with all due apologies by his majesty's dutiful subject the author.
  • Three Parts + Seraphic Chorus.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Rockhampton, Rockhampton - Yeppoon area, Maryborough - Rockhampton area, Queensland,: Robert Burns Tait , 1915 .
      Printed by Federal Press
      Extent: 14p.
      Note/s:
      • The date September 1915 is is given at beginning and end of poem, as seemingly the date of completion; however, the date of publication is not stated.
      • Preface, pp3-6, by author.
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