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# The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems/Sea Piece

SEA-PIECE.
Sublime is thy prospect, thou proud-rolling Ocean,  And Fancy surveys thee with solemn delight; When thy mountainous billows are wild in commotion,  And the tempest is rous'd by the spirits of night!
When the moon-beams thro' winter-clouds faintly appearing,  At intervals gleam on the dark-swelling wave; And the mariner, dubious, now hoping, now fearing,  May hear the stern Genius of hurricanes rave!
But now, when thine anger has long been subsiding,  And the tempest has folded the might of its wing; How clear is thy surface, in loveliness gliding,  For April has open'd the portals of spring!
Now soft on thy bosom the orient is beaming,  And tremulous breezes are waving thy breast; On thy mirror the clouds and the shadows are streaming,  And morning and glory the picture have drest!
No gale but the balmy Favonian is blowing,  In coral-caves resting, the winds are asleep; And, rich in the sun-beam, yon pendants are glowing,  That tinge with their colors the silvery deep!
Yet smile or be dreadful, thou still-changing Ocean,  Tremendous or lovely, resistless or still; I view thee adoring, with hallow'd emotion,  The Pow'r that can hush or arouse thee at will!
# The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems/Christmas Carol

CHRISTMAS CAROL.
Fair Gratitude! in strain sublime,  Swell high to heav'n thy tuneful zeal; And, hailing this auspicious time,  Kneel, Adoration! kneel!
CHORUS.
For lo! the day, th' immortal day, When Mercy's full, benignant ray, Chas'd ev'ry gathering cloud away,  And pour’d the noon of light! Rapture! be kindling, mounting, glowing, While from thine eye the tear is flowing,  Pure, warm, and bright!
'Twas on this day, oh, love divine!  The orient star's effulgence rose; Then wak'd the morn, whose eye benign,  Shall never, never close!
CHORUS.
Messiah! be thy Name ador'd, Eternal, high, redeeming Lord! By grateful worlds be anthems pour'd,  Emanuel! Prince of Peace! This day, from Heav'n's empyreal dwelling, Harp, lyre, and voice, in concert swelling.  Bade discord cease!
Wake the loud Pæan, tune the voice,  Children of heav'n and sons of earth! Seraphs and men! exult, rejoice,  To bless the Saviour's birth!
CHORUS.
Devotion! light thy purest fire! Transport! on cherub-wing aspire! Praise! wake to him thy golden lyre,  Strike ev'ry thrilling chord! While at the ark of Mercy kneeling, We own thy grace, reviving, healing,  Redeemer! Lord!
# The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems/Lines to the Memory of an amiable young Lady

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TO THE MEMORY OF A VERY AMIABLE YOUNG LADY, WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.
At length, departed saint! thy pangs are o'er, And earthly suff'ring shall be thine no more; Like some young rose-bud, blighted in its May, Thy virtues bloom'd, to wither soon away! Around thy grave let Spring her off'ring strew, Her drooping lilies, bath'd in fragrant dew; Emblems of thee, thou sweet, lamented maid; Thou spotless lily, doom'd so soon to fade! Angelic sweetness, piety refin'd, Within thy gentle bosom were enshrin'd. Thy heav'nly mind display'd, in early youth, The fairest blossom of celestial truth— How oft, sweet girl! thy soothing tears would flow, In sacred sympathy with others' woe!
Yet Patience taught thee to sustain thy own, Suppress the sigh, and hush the rising moan; 'Midst anguish, still to wear the placid mien, Mild Resignation's smile and look serene! Ye who have watch'd beside the mournful bed, And rais'd, with anxious care, the languid head; Gaz'd on the pallid cheek, the faded eye, And heard the breathings of the parting sigh; Ye who have mourn'd a sister's early doom, Or bent in sorrow o'er a daughter's tomb; Oh! weep for those, who sadly now deplore, The fate, the virtues, of the maid no more. What pow'r can sooth a tender parent's grief, Or bring the friend's, the sister's woes relief? Religion pure, ineffably divine, Angel of peace, that heav'nly pow'r is thine, Though spreading glooms the beam of joy may shroud, Still, still thy rainbow brightens in the cloud; Dispels the mist of error and of night, Till fairer prospects open on the sight;
The blissful regions of eternal rest, The calm, Elysian mansions of the blest. —There too, each pang, each earthly suff'ring o'er, Her gentle spirit soars, to weep no more! "Mourn not for me," the happy seraph cries, "Exulting, lo! I gain my native skies! A golden harp enraptur'd now I bear, A wreath of bright, unfading palms I wear! Mourn not for me, escap'd from ev'ry woe! I gaze with pity, on the scenes below! And bless the hour, when, freed from mortal clay, My spirit mounted to the realms of day! Oh! think, when past, a few eventful years, Of toil and sorrow in the vale of tears; Then shall we meet, releas'd from ev'ry pain, Then shall we meet—nor ever part again!"
# The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems/Moon-light

MOON-LIGHT.
Come, gentle muse! now all is calm, The dew descends, the air is balm; Unruffled is the glassy deep, While moon-beams o'er its bosom sleep; The gale of summer mildly blows, The wave in soothing murmur flows; Unclouded Vesper shines on high,
Oh! at this hour, this placid hour, Soft music, wake thy magic pow'r! Be mine to hear thy dulcet measure, Thy warbling strains, that whisper, pleasure; Thy heavenly airs, of cadence dying, And harp to every zephyr sighing; When roving by the shadowy beam,
But all is still! no mellow sound Floats on the breeze of night around; Yet fancy, with some airy spell, Can wake "sweet Echo" from her cell; Can charm her pensive votary's ear, With plaintive numbers melting near; And bid celestial spirits rise,
I love the rosy dawn of day, When Zephyr wakes the laughing May; I love the summer-evening's close, That lulls the mind in calm repose; But sweeter far the hour serene, When softer colours paint the scene; When Vesper sheds a dewy ray,
# The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems/Contents

Contents. :
| | PAGE |
| Ode to Cheerfulness | 1 |
| Song—The Smile | 5 |
| Moon-light | 7 |
| Address to Music | 9 |
| The Memory of Joys that are Past | 11 |
| The Emigrant | 13 |
| Sonnet | 16 |
| Address to Fancy | 17 |
| Sonnet.—To Italy | 20 |
| The Laplander to his Rein-deer | 21 |
| Song | 24 |
| Song | 26 |
| To the Head-Ache | 28 |
| To Resignation | 31 |
| Address to Thought | 33 |
| The Indian Lover | 36 |
| War Song | 39 ​ Contents. PAGE Hymn 42 To Experience 45 Lines to the Memory of an amiable young Lady, who died at the Age of eighteen 47 To my younger Brother 50 To my Mother 52 Lines written to the Memory of Elizabeth Smith 57 The Silver Locks 60 The Bards to the Soldiers of Caractacus 63 Sea Piece 67 The Angel of the Sun 69 The Ruin and its Flowers 77 Mountaineer Song 83 Christmas Carol 86 War and Peace 89 The Wreath of Loyalty 122 The Statue of the dying Gladiator 136 The Call of Liberty 139 To my eldest Brother with the British Army in Portugal 145 The Domestic Affections 148 |
# The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems/Ode to Cheerfulness

P O E M S.
ODE TO CHEERFULNESS.
Lovely nymph! with eye serene, Dimpled smile and frolic mien; Come, with airy step advancing, Come, with blooming Hebe dancing; O'er the meads I see thee straying— Youth and sport around thee playing— Gay content, thy sister fair, Twines a garland round thy hair. Thine the lip of roseate dye; Thine the pleasure-sparkling eye; Thine the cheek that softly glows, Brighter than the blushing rose!
Guide me to thy fav'rite bow'rs, To deck thy rural shrine with flow'rs. In thy lowly, sylvan cell, Peace and virtue love to dwell; Ever let me own thy sway, Still to thee my tribute pay.
When Zephyr waves his balmy wing,  To kiss the sweets of May; When the soft melodies of spring  Resound from ev'ry spray; With thee, sweet maid! I'll rove along,  And tread the morning dews; To hear the wood-lark's early song,  To court the laughing muse.
With thee I'll rove, when summer pours  Her treasures o'er the land; When fair Pomona sheds her stores,  With kind, luxuriant hand;—
When Autumn, bearing golden sheaves,  Delights the happy swain; And softly paints the fading leaves,  And crowns the fertile plain.
And e'en in winter's hoary reign  I'll wake my festive lays; Thy look shall prompt th' enliv'ning strain,  And "brighten at the blaze!"
I court thee in the vernal hours  Of life's enchanting morn; Thy hand shall strew my path with flow'rs  And steal away the thorn:   But when the dawn of youth is fled,  The spring of life so fair; Ah! wilt thou then benignly shed Thy placid beams around my head,  And steal my thoughts from care?
Yes! gentle pow'r, thy heav'nly ray  Shall cheer my morning bright; And e'en in life's declining day, Shall gild the dark and thorny way,  With mild, celestial light!
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Dowling, Henry

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​Dowling, Henry, son of the Rev. Henry Dowling, Baptist minister at Gloucester, England, in which city Mr. Dowling was born in the year 1810, was educated at the Free Grammar School, Colchester, and was afterwards apprenticed to the printing business. In 1830 he emigrated to Tasmania, and was for some time on the staff of the Hobart Town Courier, but in the following year he purchased from the late Mr. J. P. Fawkner the Launceston Independent, and changing its name to the Launceston Advertiser, ​conducted it for some years with much success. In 1839 Mr. Dowling proceeded to England, having received the appointment of Immigration Agent for Tasmania, in which capacity he was the means of introducing into the colony many settlers whose names are now well known in Northern Tasmania. In 1842 he returned to Launceston, and was for some years engaged in the printing and drapery business. He was one of the founders of the Launceston Savings Bank, and in 1844 was appointed manager of that institution. Mr. Dowling was always active in public affairs, and was specially prominent in the anti-transportation movement, and in the agitation for railways. He was Mayor of Launceston from 1857 to 1861, and in the latter year was elected to the House of Assembly as Member for Launceston, but only held the seat for two years. In 1868 he accepted the secretaryship of the Launceston and Western Railway Company, and held that position until the year 1872, when this, the first of Tasmanian railways, was taken over by the Government. Amongst the works issued from Mr. Dowling's press may be mentioned an illustrated edition of the "Pickwick Papers" and West's "History of Tasmania." He died at Launceston, Sept. 17th, 1885.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Dowling, His Honour James Sheen

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​Dowling, His Honour James Sheen, L.L.B., District Court Judge, New South Wales, is the eldest son of the late Sir James Dowling, sometime Chief Justice of New South Wales, by his first wife. Sir James Dowling's brother, Vincent George Dowling, was for many years editor of Bell's Life in London, and was the first to seize the miscreant Bellingham after he had assassinated Mr. Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister of England, in the lobby of the House of Commons on May 11th, 1812. Judge Dowling was born in London on Dec. 2nd, 1819, and was taken to Australia by his father in 1828. Returning to London in 1836, he entered at King's College, and graduated LL.B. in 1841. In Nov. 1836 he became a student at the Middle Temple, and was called to the Bar in Nov. 1843. He was appointed Attorney-General at Port Curtis in 1849, and subsequently went to Sydney, where he was appointed a police magistrate in 1851, Crown Prosecutor in 1857, and in 1861 District Court Judge, a position he still holds. Judge Dowling married on June 20th, 1849, Katherine Marion, fourth daughter of the late James Laidley, of Sydney, sometime Deputy Commissary-General.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Downer, Hon. Sir John William

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​Downer, Hon. Sir John William, K.C.M.G., M.P. Q.C., formerly Premier of South Australia, was born in Adelaide on July 5th, 1844, and educated at St Peter's College in that city. He was admitted to the South Australian bar in 1868, and belongs to one of the most prominent legal firms in the capital. Mr. Downer, who was made Q.C. in 1878, entered the Assembly in the same year as member for Barossa, and still represents that constituency. He was Attorney-General under Mr. (now Sir) John Bray from June 1881 to June 1884. In this capacity he introduced and carried through the House a measure to allow persons charged with criminal offences to give evidence upon oath, and a Married Woman's Property Bill. In 1883 he was one of the representatives of South Australia at the Sydney Convention, which gave birth to the abortive Federal Council of Australasia. Mr. Downer took the leadership of the opposition during Mr. Bray's absence in Europe in 1885; and having carried a motion of want of confidence in the Cotton Ministry, assumed office in June 1885 as Premier and Attorney-General. The accession of Mr. Bray, later in the same year, strengthened the Ministry, which carried a tariff, going a considerable way in a protective direction. In Jan. 1887 Mr. Downer left for England to attend the Colonial Conference as one of the delegates of South Australia. He attended all the sittings, and was entrusted by his Australian colleagues with the duty of presenting the case for an assimilation of the law of England with that of the colonies. ​in regard to marriage with a deceased wife's sister. During his stay in England he was offered and accepted the distinction of K.C.M.G. Sir John Downer only returned to Adelaide to learn of the defeat of his Government, and the resignation of his colleagues in June 1887 during his absence. He has not since taken office, but was appointed one of the delegates of South Australia to the Federation Convention held in Sydney in March 1891. Sir John, who was elected a member of the Council of the University of Adelaide in Nov. 1887, married Elizabeth, daughter of J. Henderson.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Draper, Rev. Daniel James

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​Draper, Rev. Daniel James, was born in the parish of Wickham, Hampshire, England, in August 1810, and apprenticed to a carpenter. At the age of twenty he became a local preacher amongst the Methodists. Becoming a regular minister in 1834, he married Miss Webb, a farmer's daughter, and emigrated to Tasmania in 1836, subsequently devoting himself to missionary work in Sydney. Leaving New South Wales, he settled in Adelaide in 1846, and during his nine years' residence accomplished marvels in the way of chapel building, besides otherwise greatly promoting the extension of the body with which he was associated. In 1855 he became head of the Wesleyan denomination in Victoria, and discharged the onerous duties of the position till March 1865, when he took a trip to England to recruit his health. He secured his return passage in the ill-fated London, which sailed from Plymouth on Jan. 5th, 1866, and foundered on the 11th in the Bay of Biscay, when out of 239 souls on board 220 perished. Mr. and Mrs. Draper were amongst the victims, the former bravely encouraging and exhorting his fellow-passengers to the last. The Draper Memorial Church in Adelaide commemorates the esteem in which he was held by the citizens.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Douglas, Hon. John

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​Douglas, Hon. John, C.M.G., son of Henry Alexander Douglas and Elizabeth (Dalziel) his wife, was born in London on March 6th, 1828, and after receiving his education at Rugby School and Durham University, he emigrated to New South Wales in 1851, and received the appointment of a goldfields' commissioner, a post he gave up in order to follow pastoral pursuits. He sat as member for Darling Downs, and afterwards for Camden, in the New South Wales Parliament; but in 1863 he settled in Queensland, and entered the Legislative Assembly for Port Curtis. Mr. Douglas joined the Macalister Ministry in Feb. 1866, and was Postmaster-General from March to July of that year. He was called to the Legislative Council in the same year; but when, some months after Mr. Macalister's return to power, he was appointed Treasurer, he re-entered the Assembly as member for the Eastern Downs, afterwards resigning to take the leadership in the Council. He resigned the treasurership in May 1867, and was Secretary for Public Works till the August following. In the Lilley Ministry Mr. Douglas was Postmaster-General from Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1869, when he resigned on accepting the post of Agent-General, which he held till 1871, when he returned to Queensland, and was elected in 1875 for Maryborough. In June of the following year he accepted office as Secretary for Public Lands in the Thorn Ministry, and became Premier upon the resignation of Mr. Thorn in March 1877. In the following year he exchanged the portfolio of Lands for the Colonial Secretaryship, and remained in power until Jan. 1879, when his Government was defeated, and he resigned. Subsequent to the assumption of a protectorate over a portion of New Guinea by the British ​Government, he was a candidate for the poet of High Commissioner, but Sir Peter Scratchley's claims were preferred by the Imperial authorities. Mr. Douglas became Resident at Thursday Island in April 1885, and on the death of Sir Peter Scratchley he was appointed Special Commissioner for British New Guinea, which post he held for nearly three years, until the sovereignty of England was proclaimed. In 1889 he returned to Thursday Island, where he acts as Government Resident and police magistrate.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Downer, Henry Edward

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​Downer, Henry Edward, M.P., J.P., brother of Sir John Downer (q.v.),is a native of Adelaide, S.A., and for fifteen years held the position of stipendiary magistrate and Commissioner of Insolvency. He is now in partnership with his brother Sir John as a legal practitioner in Adelaide. Mr. Downer has been M.P. for Encounter Bay in the South Australian Legislature since 1881. He was Attorney-General in the Cockburn Government from May to August 1890.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Doyle, Right Rev. Jeremiah Joseph

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​Doyle, Right Rev. Jeremiah Joseph, D.D., first Roman Catholic Bishop of Grafton, N.S.W. This was one of the new dioceses created in 1887, and Dr. Doyle was consecrated the first Bishop on August 28th of that year.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Drake, Sir William Henry

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​Drake, Sir William Henry, K.C.B., son of John Drake, Deputy Commissary-General, by Maria, daughter of George Story, of Silksworth Hall, county Durham, was born in 1812, and entered the War Office in 1831. He was Colonial Treasurer of Western Australia from 1838 to 1848, and Commissary-General and Director of Supplies and Transports from 1871 to 1877. He died on Jan. 28th, 1882.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Downes, Major-General Major Francis

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​Downes, Major-General Major Francis, C.M.G., Commandant South Australian Forces, is the son of the late William Downes, of Dedham, Essex, and was born on Feb. 10th, 1834. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered the Royal Artillery in 1852, became lieut.-colonel in 1877, colonel in 1882, and major-general (retired) in 1884. He served in the Crimean Campaign 1855 (medal with clasps and Turkish medal); was Instructor in Fortifications at the Royal Military College in 1858-9; commanded Royal Artillery at Mauritius in 1863-5, and at St. Helena in 1869-71; was for five years Instructor to the Artillery School for Militia and Volunteer Officers; and subsequently held the position of Commandant of the South Australian Military Forces from 1877 to 1885, being a Member of the Royal Commission on Defences in 1881, and Secretary of Defence for Victoria from 1885 to 1888. In March of the latter year, he was reappointed Commandant of the South Australian Military Forces. He married, in 1858, Helen, daughter of the late B. Chamberlin, of Catton, Norwich. Major-General Downes was created C.M.G. in 1885.
# The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter/A Careless Heart

From The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter (1907).
A CARELESS HEART
The wind has blown my heart away All on a summer holiday. If you can find it, pray you tell, For this is how the loss befell:
If you will now my tale believe, I wore my heart upon my sleeve, So came it that, alack the day! The wind did blow my heart away.
# The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter/A Cry in the World

From The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter (1907).
A CRY IN THE WORLD
Kine, kine. in the meadows, why do you low so piteously? High is the grass to your knees and wet with the dew of the morn, Sweet with the perfume of honey, and breath of the clover blossoms; But the sad-eyed kine on the hillside see no joy in the day newborn. “Man, man has bereft us and taken our young ones from us; Thus we call in the eve, call through night to the break of day, That they may hear and answer; so we find no peace in the meadows. Our hearts are sad with hunger for the love man stole away.”
Bird, bird, on the tree-top, my heart doth sigh for thy music; In the glad air of mom and promise of summer, rejoice! Thy head droops low on thy breast, half hid in thy ruffled feathers. The grove is lone for thy singing, O bird of the silver voice!“ Man, man has bereft me, stolen my nestlings from me, Wrecked the soft home we built 'mid the budding blossoms of spring. My mate's brown wings grow red in vain beating the bars of her prison; With heart so full of longing and mourning, how can I sing?”
Seal, in the cliff's shadow, why are thine eyes so mournful? Come from the gloom and the echo of the sea's sighs in the cave, Sink down into deeper waters 'mid the hidden flowers of the ocean, Or seek the splash and sparkle 'neath the snowy break of the wave. “Man, man has bereft me, robbed me of those my loved ones; Alone, I find no gladness; alone, where is joy for me In the silvery flash of the fish or the wonderful gardens of coral? My eyes grow dim with watching the desolate waste of the sea!”
Woman, king of the world is the babe you hush with sobbing, King of all that is living in air or sea, or on land. Therefore why do you kiss with lips that are dumb with sorrow? Your tear-drops falling cold have chilled the little hand. This is the soul's proud right, the earth given into his keeping; And all that lives thereon must come to his feet a slave. Mother, why do you flee with haggard eyes in the morning. To answer with white face hid in the grass of a baby's grave?
# The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter/A Bird from the West

From The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter (1907).
A BIRD FROM THE WEST
At the grey dawn, amongst the falling leaves, A little bird outside my window swung, High on a topmost branch he trilled his song, And “Ireland! Ireland! Ireland!” ever sung.
“Take me,” I cried, “back to my island home; Sweet bird, my soul shall ride between thy wings”; For my lone spirit wide his pinions spread, And “Home” and “Home” and “Home” he ever sings.
We lingered over Ulster stern and wild. I called: “Arise! doth none remember me?” One turnèd in the darkness murmuring, “How loud upon the breakers sobs the sea!”
We rested over Connaught—whispering said: “Awake, awake, and welcome! I am here.” One woke and shivered at the morning grey: “The trees, I never heard them sigh so drear.”
We flew low over Munster. Low I wept: “You used to love me, love me once again!” They spoke from out the shadows wondering: “You'd think of tears, so bitter falls the rain.”
Long over Leinster lingered we. “Goodbye! My best beloved, goodbye for evermore.” Sleepless they tossed and whispered to the dawn: “So sad a wind was never heard before.”
Was it a dream I dreamt? For yet there swings
In the grey mom a bird upon the bough,
And “Ireland! Ireland! Ireland!” ever sings. Oh I fair the breaking day in Ireland now.