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The Fancy Ball : A Poem, in Four Cantos extract poetry satire "The sun is up that ushers in"

Author:agent John Rae

Issue Details: First known date: 1849... 1849 The Fancy Ball : A Poem, in Four Cantos

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Notes

According to the accompanying note [in the People's Advocate], the subject of this work was 'the first civic Fancy Ball' given by the Mayor of Sydney, James Wilshire, in 1844.
The first line of this extract is line eleven in verse eight of The Mayor's Fancy Ball : Canto the Third, part of the sequence The Fancy Ball. Other parts of The Fancy Ball may appear in this extract.