On Reading the Announcement of the Death of My Old Friend George James Macdonald, Esq., Commissioner of Crown Lands single work   poetry   "The grave has closed over thee, friend of my early days!"
Composed: Ashfield, Ashfield - Burwood area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,
Issue Details: First known date: 1852... 1852 On Reading the Announcement of the Death of My Old Friend George James Macdonald, Esq., Commissioner of Crown Lands
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Notes

  • Epigraph: Ossa quieta, precor, tuta requiescite in urna / Et sit humus cineri non onerosa tuo!
  • Halloran's epigraph is from Ovid, Amores, III., 9, 67.

  • This is a far more personal work than Halloran's other tribute poem to Macdonald which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 14 February, 1852, under the title 'Bury the Bard'. Significantly, in this Empire poem, Halloran also makes oblique references to three of Macdonald's poems: 'On a Movement of Beethoven's' (1838); Sonnet to Weber (1827); and 'Come to the Lake of Swans', which appeared in the Colonist in May 1835 with the author's name indicated as 'Ione'. Halloran's reference to this third poem is particularly important as it provides further confirmation that Macdonald was the poet 'Ione'.

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    y separately published work icon The Empire 26 January 1852 Z1714837 1852 newspaper issue 1852 pg. 611
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Bury the Bard : In Memory of the Late George James Macdonald, Esq. i "Bury the Bard in the forest wild,", Henry Halloran , 1852 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14 February 1852; (p. 6)
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