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Joys of the Earth single work   poetry   "How short-lived are the pleasures of the earth!"
Composed: Sydney, New South Wales,
Issue Details: First known date: 1840... 1840 Joys of the Earth
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Notes

  • Epigraph: Pleasures are changed into pain; riches perish, and glory vanishes.
  • Attributed in error to E. K. Hawksley in Early Australian Poetry (1982).

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