Author's note: The Poet Laureate, writing from Swinford Old Manor, Ashford, Kent, under date May 24th, 1900, was pleased to say: "It will give me much pleasure to find myself associated with your new volume in the manner you propose, and I shall regard it as an agreeable and significant link between the higher culture of Australia and the Literature of the Mother Land." I have only to add that however unworthy, I trust that these verses will forward this union in some slight degree.
The verses are reprinted from the press... (Officer College, Hobart, May 1901)
Dedication: These verses are dedicated to the Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin.
Epigraph: 'What is amiss, may it be gently heard' - Antony and Cleopatra.
