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'Like Harpur, [Halloran] had once dreamt of fame, now thinks a poet's duty is to teach moral lessons, love of God, etc.' (Webby)
Notes
At head of poem (in the New South Wales Magazine, or, Journal of General Politics, Literature, Science and the Arts): On reading certain beautiful lines, addressed to an 'Echo on the Banks of the Hunter,' written by Charles Harpur, and published in the Australasian Chronicle, of the 14th March, 1843.
Author's note (in the New South Wales Magazine, or, Journal of General Politics, Literature, Science and the Arts): March 1843.
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