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+------ Thema: Stephens, Alfred George: Sonnet On The Burning Of G. Darrell's MS. Plays (/showthread.php?tid=20430)
Stephens, Alfred George: Sonnet On The Burning Of G. Darrell's MS. Plays - ZaunköniG - 09.05.2012
Alfred George Stephens
1865 – 1933 Australien
Sonnets On The Burning Of G. Darrell's MS. Plays
Ye daughters of Australia, weep for George
Darrell! and mourn that desolating night
When heavy Austral drama was alight
And sparkling (One Night Only!) like a forge.
Perchance "The Mystery of the Melbourne Morgue"
That awful conflagration solved at sight:
Yea, the devouring element would bite
"The Haunted Hatter of the Gippsland Gorge!"
But Genius shall not perish from the earth!
"Villains, unhand her!" See it rise and ride,
One leaf above the pyre! a phoenix boon,
Bearing to distant shores in billionth birth
The deathless phrase that worship shall divide
In alien lands with idols of the moon.