The Old Fig Tree, Near Hickman's Hotel single work   poetry   "I look on thee oft - Oh! thou marvellous tree"
Date: 24 Mar 1894 Place: Jamberoo, Kiama area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,
Issue Details: First known date: 1894... 1894 The Old Fig Tree, Near Hickman's Hotel
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Notes:
This version includes 5th stanza which enhances the concept that men who are now dead once stood where the speaker of the poem now stands
Alternative title: The Old Fig Tree, Wollongong
First line of verse: "I LOOK on thee oft, O thou marvellous tree," First known date: 1894
Notes:
This version omits the final 5th stanza
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    y separately published work icon Songs and Verses Philip Durham Lorimer , London : William Clowes , 1901 Z164168 1901 selected work poetry Preface written by Philip Lorimer's sister, Charlotte Russell:

    'This little volume has been printed for circulation among my brother Philip Lorimer's surviving relatives and old associates, who have expressed a desire to possess a memento of him.

    The Songs and Verses have been selected from a mass of manuscript and printed cuttings mostly preserved by himself, and I have to thank Mr. E. A. Petherick for the interesting biographical sketch which he has compiled from private letters, newspaper paragraphs, and the recollection of Philip's friends.

    C.R. LONDON, July, 1901'         London : William Clowes , 1901     pg. 218-219 Section: Narrative and Descriptive Pieces
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  • Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,
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