A Prisoner Poet's Tribute to Gladstone.
| o The following lines, for whose genuiness the Kcho can vouch, were found written on a prisoner's slate in his ctrU in one of the English convict establishments : — To Wm. E, Gladstone, on his KeTIBEMENT. When Cincinnatus, with careworn brow, Turned from the Eoman Senate to the plough, He took not with him such a wreath of bays As that which cvowns thy memorable days, Nor could look back with calmer gaze to scan The pure paged hißtory of a glorious man. Son of old England, worthy of her soil, Long may she reap the harvest of thy toil ; Long bear in mind tbe lessons thou hast taught Nor view, ingrate, the work which thou has wrought ! Joy to thy setting sun's illustrious track, Such, Billy, is the fervent wish of Mac.
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Feilding Star, Volume xv, Issue 335, 9 June 1894, Page 4
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138A Prisoner Poet's Tribute to Gladstone. Feilding Star, Volume xv, Issue 335, 9 June 1894, Page 4
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