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The Colonial Mortuary Bard; "'Reo," The
by Louis Becke
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Title: The Colonial Mortuary Bard; "'Reo," The Fisherman; and The Black Bream Of Australia 1901
Author: Louis Becke
Release Date: February 18, 2008 [EBook #24639]
Language: English
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THE COLONIAL MORTUARY BARD; "'REO," THE FISHERMAN; and THE BLACK BREAM OF AUSTRALIA
By Louis Becke
T. Fisher Unwin, 1901
THE COLONIAL MORTUARY BARD
A writer in the Sydney Evening News last year gave that journal some amusing extracts from the visitors' book at Longwood, St. Helena. If the extracts are authentic copies of the original entries, they deserve to be placed on the same high plane as the following, which appeared in a Melbourne newspaper some years ago:--
"Our Emily was so fair That the angels envied her, And whispered in her ear, 'We will take you away on Tuesday night!'"
I once considered this to be the noblest bit of mortuary verse ever written; but since reading the article in the Sydney paper I have c