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Notes
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In its issue of 17 June, 1899, The Clipper published entries from a competition run by The Bookfellow for the best quatrain on the subject 'Australia' (p. 6). Not to be outdone, The Clipper (observing with '"reasonable wrath" and modified delight, that Tasmania is not short of poets') reflected that the editors were 'unaware of a good quatrain having yet been built about our island.' The paper consequently offered a prize of 'any five shilling book of Australasian verse' for the best quatrain on Tasmania, noting that 'the subject may be treated historically, geologically, biologically, epigrammatically, or geographically, or with any other ally the writers choose; the one essential being that it must convey Tasmania's meaning to the world in four poetic lines ...'
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Percy Milne produced the winning entry.
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This sequence contains a further six quatrains 'slightly altered' by the Editor, and sixteen from 'the Bar Parlour folks' (a regular Clipper column).
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Tasmania
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"Where fern-enfolded runnels steal through moss",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[Tasmania]
i
"Fair as a moonbeam's most effulgent ray,",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[June, 1899]
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"Fate gave her beauty, health and peace for dower,",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[Tasmania]
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"Sea-girt, and draped with richest hands",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[Tasmania]
i
"Pretty girls, apples and roses,",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[Tasmania]
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"An island set in the ocean deep,",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[Tasmania]
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"Sea-girt, alone, bold-fronted to the tide -",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[Tasmania]
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"Tasmania,, Emerald Isle of Austral seas!",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[Tasmania]
i
"A sunny land, rich in gifts from Nature's well;",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[Tasmania]
i
"Basaltic shafts aglow with day's first fires,",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[Tasmania]
i
"Though shadows fell athwart thy helpless youth,",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[Tasmania]
i
"Tasmania is a land whose poor are slaves,",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[Tasmania]
i
"What is Tasmania? A young colony",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[Tasmania]
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"For an isle of such mineral wealth,",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6) -
[Tasmania]
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"Our land is bounteous! It yields South's golden fruits,",
1899
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Clipper , 8 July 1899; (p. 6)
