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A Commentary, Written Currente Calamo, on the Rev. C. P. N. Wilton's Prize Poem, Published in the Australian Almanack, for the Current Year 1831
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"Hail to the learned Cantab of St John's,"
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Sydney,
New South Wales,
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1831...
1831
A Commentary, Written Currente Calamo, on the Rev. C. P. N. Wilton's Prize Poem, Published in the Australian Almanack, for the Current Year 1831
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'Wilton's poem was pro-Darling; this,of course, is very anti the Governor. Claims Wilton's verses lacked poetry and truth but were given the prize on their subject matter alone. [The second stanza] begins "Hail Australasia! Britain's bulkiest daughter!"' (Webby)
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