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Elegy for Lost Goats single work   poetry   "Tethered close in case they strayed,"
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Elegy for Lost Goats
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  • Author's note: In Rockhampton in the 1870s there was a goat plague. Goats were routinely rounded up, destroyed and used as fertiliser in the Botanic Gardens - jocularly known then as the 'Rockhampton Goat Cemetery.'

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