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The Saving of the Colours single work   poetry   "Ye, who awake the strain o'er valour's grave"
Issue Details: First known date: 1879... 1879 The Saving of the Colours
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Notes

  • Author's note: Lines inspired by, and addressed to some of the multitudinous race of Bards, who in their eager search after subjects for their Muse, have made the above heading the theme for abortive attempts at poetical composition, in both English and Colonial papers.
  • Author's note: June 7th, 1879.

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