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The Aboriginals single work   poetry   "Who is this that cometh here,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1930... 1930 The Aboriginals
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  • Author's note: In Spring Street, Melbourne, in the winter of 1924, I heard an old blackfellow, sitting out of the wind in the sun, singing over and over again to himself the half-forgotten songs of his people. Once I was 'sister' to the aboriginals; long ago when I was a child.

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The Lost Tribes i "O friends, whom once I knew", Mary Gilmore , 1929 extract poetry (The Aboriginals)
— Appears in: The School Paper : Grades V and VI , November no. 365 1929; (p. 145-146)
The Lost Tribes i "Never again from the night, the night that has taken,", Mary Gilmore , 1930 extract poetry (The Aboriginals)
— Appears in: Victorian Readers : Fourth Book 1930; (p. 25) Victorian Readers : Fourth Book 1940; (p. 90) Freedom on the Wallaby : Poems of the Australian People 1953; (p. 158) Mary Gilmore : A Tribute 1965; (p. 175)
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