The Fancy Ball : A Poem, in Four Cantos extract   poetry   satire   "The sun is up that ushers in"
Issue Details: First known date: 1849... 1849 The Fancy Ball : A Poem, in Four Cantos
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Notes

  • According to the accompanying note [in the People's Advocate], the subject of this work was 'the first civic Fancy Ball' given by the Mayor of Sydney, James Wilshire, in 1844.
  • The first line of this extract is line eleven in verse eight of The Mayor's Fancy Ball : Canto the Third, part of the sequence The Fancy Ball. Other parts of The Fancy Ball may appear in this extract.

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The Mayor's Fancy Ball : Canto the Third i "The season was over - the Play-house was closed,-", Alpha , 1845 single work poetry satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 April vol. 19 no. 2471 1845; (p. 2-3)
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Subjects:
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1844
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