The Flea Who Would Fly : A Fable for Cocktail Legislators single work   poetry   satire   "When all aspire, there's no denying,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1861... 1861 The Flea Who Would Fly : A Fable for Cocktail Legislators
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  • The subject of this highly satirical poem was the lawyer and New South Wales M.L.A. Daniel Deniehy, who had lost his seat at the recent election. Deniehy was routinely lampooned and attacked in the Empire for having changed his political allegiances upon election to parliament and for having supposedly forgotten his humble colonial origins.

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    y separately published work icon The Empire 6 February 1861 Z1761643 1861 newspaper issue 1861 pg. 3
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