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Alternative title: The First Primrose Seen in Australia
Notes:Also published in England, with the title 'The Landing of the Primrose', in Ainsworth's Magazine [vol. 1, June 1842]; Robin Hood : A Fragment : With Other Fragments and Poems by Robert and Caroline Southey (London: William Blackwood, 1847); English Sacred Poetry (London: Routledge & Co., 1862).-
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The Colonial Observer
vol.
1
no.
112
18 March
1843
Z1165056
1843
newspaper issue
1843
pg.
893
Note:
With title: 'The First Primrose Seen in Australia'
The poem is untitled in the Colonial Observer but preceded by a column with the title 'The First Primrose Seen in Australia' and an explanatory note beginning: 'When care is taken with a white bottle with a piece of sponge and a little earth in it, and to place it all in the bright light of the sun, plants may be carried alive in safety half round the world...'
Editor's note: The folowing little poem upon this incident has been published in Ainsworth's Magazine [England].
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y
The Colonial Observer
vol.
1
no.
112
18 March
1843
Z1165056
1843
newspaper issue
1843
pg.
893
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