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The Magpie's Song extract   poetry   "Oh, I love to be by Bindi, where the fragrant pastures are,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1928... 1928 The Magpie's Song
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Notes

  • Extract comprises the second, third, fourth and sixth stanzas from the original.

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    y separately published work icon The Victorian Reading-Books : Eighth Book Victorian Readers : Eighth Book Melbourne : Victoria Education Department , 1928 Z1428467 1928 anthology poetry prose children's fiction essay Melbourne : Victoria Education Department , 1928 pg. 27-28
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The Magpie's Song i "Where the dreaming Tiber wanders by the haunted Appian Way,", Frank Samuel Williamson , 1913 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Children's Treasury of Australian Verse 1913; (p. 58-60) The School Paper for Grades VII and VIII , July no. 292 1924; (p. 89-90) Purple and Gold : Poems and Lyrics 1940; (p. 13-15) Shadow and Shine : An Anthology of Gippsland Literature 1988; (p. 69)
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y separately published work icon A Key to the Eighth Book of the Victorian Readers : A Treatment of Poems A Senior English Master , A. L. Maher (editor), Melbourne : Ruskin Press , 1934 Z1433233 1934 selected work criticism

Contains critical and teaching notes on all the poems (and extracts of poems) included in The Victorian Reading Books: Eighth Book, as well as biographical summaries of the poets. Topics discussed include the themes, metre, subject-matter, vocabulary and figures of speech.
y separately published work icon A Key to the Eighth Book of the Victorian Readers : A Treatment of Poems A Senior English Master , A. L. Maher (editor), Melbourne : Ruskin Press , 1934 Z1433233 1934 selected work criticism

Contains critical and teaching notes on all the poems (and extracts of poems) included in The Victorian Reading Books: Eighth Book, as well as biographical summaries of the poets. Topics discussed include the themes, metre, subject-matter, vocabulary and figures of speech.
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