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BIRTHDAY OF VICTORIA JOHN MASEFIELD'S TRIBUTE The following tribute was offered by the Poet Laureate, Mr. John Masefield, to the city of Melbourne to mark the hundredth anniversary, on November 19, of the first settlement in Victoria—that of Edward Henty at Portland Bay, 225 miles from Melbourne:— A hundred years ago this was the range Of savages who neither built nor sowed. The wilderness was here, with Nature's change; No flock, no herd, nor any house nor road. The sea. the river, and the desolation Ruled hero together, then: a hundred years Have made her this, the city of a nation. LdVely with flowers above her sister peers. This is her Spring; I shall not see her summer. But guess it from her spring; a century hence "Wisdom, man's rarest strength, and earth's new-comer, "Will sojourn here and crown her citizens. Fulfilling beyond thought the dreams we share For those to-morrows our to-days prepare.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21968, 27 November 1934, Page 10
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156CENTENARY ODE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21968, 27 November 1934, Page 10
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