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Author's note: Written on the 29th day of July, 1871.
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Epigraph: "Low the reckless Youth is laid, / Gored with many a gaping wound: / Fate appears to claim his head - / Who can raise it from the ground?" Thomas Gray's Fatal Sisters.
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The author provides three further epigraphs. Two are in Latin, one from Carmen Vetustum, the other from Publius Ovidius Naso's Metamorphosis Sexta. The third epigraph is a Greek quotation from Aeschylus's Agamemnon.
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At the conclusion of the poem, the author prints a report of the accident which was published in The Hobart Town Mercury, 2 May 1871.
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