Raleigh's Last Lines single work   poetry   "On that last night you dreamed of blue-robed kings"
Issue Details: First known date: 1970... 1970 Raleigh's Last Lines
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Notes

  • Note on title: On the eve of his execution Raleigh wrote his best-known poem, 'Even such is Time' on a blank page in his Bible.
  • Note on first line: Indian chiefs who had promised alliance against the Spaniards.

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— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 15 February 1933; (p. 12-13, 15) Tornado and Other Stories 1945; (p. 69-80) On the day of his execution Sir Walter Raleigh is shown proof by an English boy he left as hostage on the Orinoco that his 'El Nuevo Eldorado', the city of Manoa, actually exists, and dies happy.
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