A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest extract   poetry   "Not a sound disturbs the air,"
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
Issue Details: First known date: 1925... 1925 A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest
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Notes

  • Epigraph: And far and free this man of men,/ With wintry hair and wasted feature, / Had fellowhip with gorge and glen,/ And learned the loves and runes of Nature. Kendall.
  • This extract omits lines 13 - 22 and 25 - 28 from the 42 line version. Some textual variations appear.

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