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Aboriginal Death Song single work   poetry   "Behold, it is the camp-fire of our Brother!-"
Is part of A Garland of Wild Flowers Charles Harpur , 1858 series - author poetry
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
Issue Details: First known date: 1858... 1858 Aboriginal Death Song
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Notes

  • This poem appears in a number of versions from 1858 onwards. For further details, see The Poems of Charles Harpur in Manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in Publication in the Nineteenth Century: An Analytical Finding List by Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins (Canberra: Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, 2002).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
No. 3 in the series 'A Garland of Wild Flowers'.
Notes:
15 lines.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Empire no. 2,185 6 January 1858 Z1735954 1858 newspaper issue 1858 pg. 5
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