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Song single work   poetry   "Ah! the solace in the sitting,"
  • Author:agent Henry Kendall http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kendall-henry
Issue Details: First known date: 1866... 1866 Song
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Empire 3 April 1866 Z1763775 1866 newspaper issue 1866 pg. 5
    Note: The fifth verse of the April 1866 Empire version reads: 'In this green glen - O my brother/Sitting by the fire -/I could hide my face and sleep now,/Far from those who laugh and weep now -/Far away from any other,/'Neath yon mountain-spire:/Even in the glen - my brother/Sitting by the fire.'
Alternative title: Song : Sitting By the Fire
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australasian vol. 4 no. 114 (New Series) 6 June 1868 Z1763787 1868 newspaper issue 1868 pg. 711
Alternative title: Sitting by the Fire
Notes:
This version omits the final (sixth) verse, which appeared in both the April 1866 Empire and June 1868 Australasian versions. In effect, it matches the June 1868 Australasian version, but without the final verse.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Leaves from Australian Forests Henry Kendall , Melbourne : George Robertson , 1869 Z241095 1869 selected work poetry Melbourne : George Robertson , 1869 pg. 74-75
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon A Century of Australian Song Douglas Sladen (editor), London : Walter Scott Publishers , 1888 Z475202 1888 anthology poetry London : Walter Scott Publishers , 1888 pg. 261-261
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall , Thomas Thornton Reed (editor), Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1966 Z571473 1966 selected work poetry This critical edition includes 90 previously uncollected poems and collates manuscripts of the poems and their appearances in periodicals and newspapers during the poet's life-time. There are copious biographical and critical notes, indexes and a bibliography. Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1966 pg. 98-99
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