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The Scamper of Life single work   poetry   "Avast, ye restless things! where are you all thus running to?"
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
Issue Details: First known date: 1845... 1845 The Scamper of Life
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature vol. 5 no. 111 6 September 1845 Z1675109 1845 newspaper issue 1845 pg. 111
    Note:
    • This version has eight three line stanzas and 24 lines in total.
    • Written as: C. H.
    • Epigraph: All run / they know not whither - in a chaise and one. - Pope
Notes:
Editor's note: Republished with additions.
First line of verse: "Avast! I say, ye restless things,"
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur Charles Harpur , Elizabeth Perkins (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1984 Z459555 1984 selected work poetry satire 'This collection represents one version of almost every poem written by Charles Harpur, with the omission of some translations and paraphrases. The verse drama, "Stalwart the Bushranger", and the fragments of the dramatic poem "King Saul" are not included. ... The collection is edited from Harpur's manuscript poems held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, and from printed copies in colonial newspapers when no manuscript version existed.' (Preface) Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1984 pg. 123-126
    Note: This version has twenty-one six lines stanzas and 126 lines in total.
Subjects:
  • New South Wales,
  • 1845
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