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# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Sheppard, William Fleetwood

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​Sheppard, William Fleetwood, B.A., second son of the Hon. Edmund Sheppard (q.v.), Puisne Judge of Queensland, was born in Sydney in Nov. 1862, and educated at Brisbane, at Charterhouse School, London, where he held a scholarship, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he was Foundation Scholar April 1881. He graduated BA. in Mathematical Tripos, in June 1884, as senior wrangler; and was in the first division of the first class in Mathematical Tripos, Part III., in Jan. 1885. He lectured at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from Oct. 1885 to June 1886; and was elected Fellow of Trinity College in Oct. 1887. Mr. Sheppard was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in Nov. 1890.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Shaw, Bernard

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​Shaw, Bernard, eldest son of the late Edward Carr Shaw, of Swansea, Tas. and Anne his wife, daughter of the late James Fenton, was born at Swansea, Tas., in 1836. He was appointed Deputy. Clerk of the Peace at Swansea in Sept. 1853; Justice of the Peace in Feb. 1862; Police Magistrate in 1866; Secretary of Mines in 1883; and Sheriff of Tasmania and Commissioner of Police for the colony in Feb. 1886.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Shelton, Edward M.

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​Shelton, Edward M., was born in Huntingdonshire in 1846, and went as a child to the United States, where he graduated at the Michigan Agricultural College in 1871, and subsequently studied at the Illinois Industrial University. He afterwards superintended the establishment of the Government farm at Tokio, Japan, but returned to America and joined the Greeley Colony in Colorado. He afterwards revisited Michigan College; and in 1874 became Farm Superintendent and Professor of Agriculture at the Kansas College, but in 1889 became Instructor in Agriculture under the Queensland Government.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Shenton, Hon. George

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​Shenton, Hon. George, M.L.C., Chief Secretary, Western Australia, is the eldest son of the late George Shenton, of Perth, W.A., where he was born on May 18th, 1842. He was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and returning to Western Australia, represented Toodyay in the old Legislative Council, and was a member of the Finance Committee of that body in 1890. He was eleven times mayor of Perth, and is a governor of the High School. In Dec. 1890 he accepted office, under Mr. (now Sir John) Forrest, as Chief Secretary, in the first Ministry formed after the concession of responsible government, and was nominated to the new Legislative Council.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Sheppard, Hon. Edmund

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​Sheppard, Hon. Edmund, sometime Puisne Judge of Queensland, was the fourth son of Samuel Sheppard, of Taunton, Somerset, and was born at Taunton on Nov. 1st, 1826. He was educated at Taunton and in London, was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in June 1857, and went to Sydney shortly afterwards. He married, firstly, in July 1860, Mary Grace, daughter of the late C. E. Murray, of Sydney, who died in June 1869. He practised at the bar in Sydney, and in 1866 was appointed District Court Judge of Queensland. Judge Sheppard married, secondly, in Dec. 1871, Adela, daughter of the late E. J. Murray, solicitor, of London. He became Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland on July 17th, 1874; and died in London on Dec. 22nd, 1882.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Seymour, David Thompson

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​Seymour, David Thompson, Commissioner of Police, Queensland, third son of Thomas Seymour, of Ballymore Castle, co. Galway, by Matilda Margaret, daughter of Walter Lawrence, was born at Ballymore Castle in 1832, and educated at Ennis College. He arrived in Queensland on Jan. 13th, 1861, bringing a detachment of the 12th Regiment, in which he held a commission as lieutenant, this being the first arrival of military after the separation of the colony from New South Wales. The same year he was appointed aide-de-camp and private secretary to the Governor, Sir George Bowen, and held the position two years. On Jan. 1st, 1863, he became Commissioner of Police for the colony, and in August 1878 a member of the Brisbane Relief Board, both of which appointments he now holds.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Sheil, Right Rev. Lawrence Bonaventure

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​Sheil, Right Rev. Lawrence Bonaventure, D.D., Roman Catholic Bishop of Adelaide, was born at Wexford, Ireland, on Dec. 24th, 1815, and educated at the Franciscan Schools at Enniscorthy and at Rome. In 1837 he was elected simultaneously to the chairs of Theology and Philosophy at St. Isidore's Franciscan Convent in Rome, and undertook the duties of the latter. Two years later he returned to Ireland, where he became head of the Franciscan Order. In 1852 he accompanied the late Archbishop Goold to Melbourne, where he was for some years President of St. Patrick's College, and was appointed Archdeacon of Ballarat in 1859. In 1866 he succeeded the late Dr. Geoghegan as second Bishop of Adelaide. He attended the Vatican Council which decreed the infallibility of the Pope, and died on March 1st, 1872. Bishop Sheil contributed greatly, during his episcopate, to the development of the Roman Catholic Church in South Australia.
* ↑ Usual spelling is "Laurence". (Wikisource contributor note)
* ↑ Sheil was the third bishop (Wikisource contributor note)
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Sheppard, Herbert Norman

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​Sheppard, Herbert Norman, B.A, fourth son of Edmund Sheppard (q.v.), sometime Puisne Judge of Queensland, was born at Brisbane in Dec. 1868, and educated at Brisbane Grammar School and at the Charterhouse School, London, where he held a scholarship. Having obtained a minor scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered there in Oct. 1887, and was elected to a Foundation Scholarship in Dec. 1889. He graduated B.A. in the Mathematical Tripos, in June 1890, as seventeenth wrangler.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Sewell, Hon. Henry

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​Sewell, Hon. Henry, sometime Premier of New Zealand, was the son of a solicitor in the Isle of Wight, where he was born. He adopted his father's profession, and after practising for some years in England, settled in Canterbury, N.Z., in Feb. 1853. He was one of the leading members of the Canterbury Association, being deputy-chairman of the committee of management before leaving London. Mr. Sewell practised as a solicitor in New Zealand, and sat in the first House of Representatives as member for Christchurch in 1854. He held office in the first inchoate Ministry formed under Mr. Fitzgerald from June to August 1854, and himself became Premier in May 1856, resigning in the same month owing to the refusal of the acting Governor to concede full responsible functions to the administration. Mr. Sewell was a member of the first Stafford Ministry from June 1856 to April 1859, when he resigned, after holding the portfolios of Colonial Treasurer and Commissioner of Customs for varying periods. In the Fox Ministry which succeeded, he was Attorney-General from August 1861 to August 1862, and held the same post as a member of the Legislative Council in the Domett Government from August 1862 to Jan. 1863. In the first Weld Ministry he was again Attorney-General from Nov. 1864 to Oct. 1865. In the third Fox Government he was Minister of Justice, Commissioner of Customs, and Commissioner of Stamps for varying periods from June 1870 to Nov. 1871. For several years subsequently he resided in England, where he died in 1879. Mr. Sewell was the brother of that eminent scholar and writer the late Rev. William Sewell, B.D., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and Principal of St. Peter's College, Radley, which was started at his instance and on his plans. His sister, Miss Elizabeth Missing Sewell, is also the author of numerous works of High Church fiction.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Sheehan, Hon. John

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​Sheehan, Hon. John, M.H.R., eldest son of David Sheehan, an early Auckland settler, was born on July 5th, 1844. He studied for the law, and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in 1868; was elected to the Auckland Provincial Council in 1869, and in the following year became a member of the Provincial Executive. He was elected to the House of Representatives on March 20th, 1872, being the first native-born member of the New Zealand Parliament. During the session of 1877 he was appointed one of the whips of Sir George Grey's party, when in opposition, and on the defeat of Major Atkinson on Oct. 8th Mr. Sheehan accepted the portfolio of Minister of Justice and Native Minister under Sir George, offices for which his extensive acquaintance with native matters, his knowledge of the Maori language, and ​his legal education eminently qualified him. After the defeat of the Grey Government in 1879, Mr. Sheehan continued an active member of the Opposition down to the time of his death, on June 13th, 1885.
# The Children of the Night (1921)/Amaryllis

AMARYLLIS
Once, when I wandered in the woods alone, An old man tottered up to me and said, "Come, friend, and see the grave that I have made For Amaryllis." There was in the tone Of his complaint such quaver and such moan That I took pity on him and obeyed, And long stood looking where his hands had laid An ancient woman, shrunk to skin and bone.
Far out beyond the forest I could hear The calling of loud progress, and the bold Incessant scream of commerce ringing clear; But though the trumpets of the world were glad, It made me lonely and it made me sad To think that Amaryllis had grown old.
# The Children of the Night (1921)/Boston

BOSTON
My northern pines are good enough for me, But there's a town my memory uprears— A town that always like a friend appears, And always in the sunrise by the sea. And over it, somehow, there seems to be A downward flash of something new and fierce, That ever strives to clear, but never clears The dimness of a charmed antiquity.
# The Children of the Night (1921)/Ballade of Broken Flutes

BALLADE OF BROKEN FLUTES
(To A. T. Schumann.)
In dreams I crossed a barren land, A land of ruin, far away; Around me hung on every hand A deathful stillness of decay; And silent, as in bleak dismay That song should thus forsaken be, On that forgotten ground there lay The broken flutes of Arcady.
The forest that was all so grand When pipes and tabors had their sway Stood leafless now, a ghostly band Of skeletons in cold array. A lonely surge of ancient spray Told of an unforgetful sea, But iron blows had hushed for aye The broken flutes of Arcady.
No more by summer breezes fanned, The place was desolate and gray; But still my dream was to command New life into that shrunken clay. I tried it. Yes, you scan to-day, With uncommiserating glee, The songs of one who strove to play The broken flutes of Arcady.
ENVOY
So, Rock, I join the common fray, To fight where Mammon may decree; And leave, to crumble as they may, The broken flutes of Arcady.
# The Children of the Night

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# The Children of the Night (1921)/Aaron Stark

AARON STARK
Withal a meagre man was Aaron Stark,— Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shrivelled, and morose. A miser was he, with a miser’s nose, And eyes like little dollars in the dark. His thin, pinched mouth was nothing but a mark; And when he spoke there came like sullen blows Through scattered fangs a few snarled words and close, As if a cur were chary of its bark.
Glad for the murmur of his hard renown, Year after year he shambled through the town,— A loveless exile moving with a staff; And oftentimes there crept into his ears A sound of alien pity, touched with tears,— And then (and only then) did Aaron laugh.
# The Children of the Night (1921)/Ballade by the Fire

BALLADE BY THE FIRE
Slowly I smoke and hug my knee, The while a witless masquerade Of things that only children see Floats in a mist of light and shade: They pass, a flimsy cavalcade, And with a weak, remindful glow, The falling embers break and fade, As one by one the phantoms go.
Then, with a melancholy glee To think where once my fancy strayed, I muse on what the years may be Whose coming tales are all unsaid, Till tongs and shovel, snugly laid Within their shadowed niches, grow By grim degrees to pick and spade, As one by one the phantoms go.
But then, what though the mystic Three Around me ply their merry trade?— And Charon soon may carry me Across the gloomy Stygian glade?— Be up, my soul! nor be afraid Of what some unborn year may show; But mind your human debts are paid, As one by one the phantoms go.
ENVOY
Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least, good friend, we know; So live and laugh, nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.
# The Children of the Night (1921)

​THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT
The Children of the Night
A Book of Poems
BY
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1921
COPYRIGHT, 1896 AND 1897, BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
THE SCRIBNER PRESS
TO THE MEMORY
OF
MY FATHER AND MOTHER
CONTENTS
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# The Children of the Night (1921)/Ballade of a Ship

BALLADE OF A SHIP
Down by the flash of the restless water The dim White Ship like a white bird lay; Laughing at life and the world they sought her, And out she swung to the silvering bay. Then off they flew on their roystering way, And the keen moon fired the light foam flying Up from the flood where the faint stars play, And the bones of the brave in the wave are lying.
’T was a king’s fair son with a king’s fair daughter, And full three hundred beside, they say,— Revelling on for the lone, cold slaughter So soon to seize them and hide them for aye; But they danced and they drank and their souls grew gay, Nor ever they knew of a ghoul’s eye spying Their splendor a flickering phantom to stray Where the bones of the brave in the wave are lying.
Through the mist of a drunken dream they brought her (This wild white bird) for the sea-fiend's prey: The pitiless reef in his hard clutch caught her, And hurled her down where the dead men stay. A torturing silence of wan dismay— Shrieks and curses of mad souls dying— Then down they sank to slumber and sway Where the bones of the brave in the wave are lying.
ENVOY
Prince, do you sleep to the sound alway Of the mournful surge and the sea-birds' crying?— Or does love still shudder and steel still slay, Where the bones of the brave in the wave are lying?
# The Children of the Night (1921)/An Old Story

AN OLD STORY
Strange that I did not know him then, That friend of mine! I did not even show him then One friendly sign;
But cursed him for the ways he had To make me see My envy of the praise he had For praising me.
I would have rid the earth of him Once, in my pride! . . . I never knew the worth of him Until he died.
# The Children of the Night (1921)/Ballade of Dead Friends

BALLADE OF DEAD FRIENDS
As we the withered ferns By the roadway lying, Time, the jester, spurns All our prayers and prying— All our tears and sighing, Sorrow, change, and woe— All our where-and-whying For friends that come and go.
Life awakes and burns, Age and death defying, Till at last it learns All but Love is dying; Love's the trade we're plying, God has willed it so; Shrouds are what we're buying For friends that come and go.
Man forever yearns For the thing that's flying. Everywhere he turns, Men to dust are drying,— Dust that wanders, eying (With eyes that hardly glow) New faces, dimly spying For friends that come and go.
ENVOY
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Elder, Alexander Lang

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​Elder, Alexander Lang, second son of George Elder of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, by Joanna Haddo, his wife, daughter of Alexander Lang, of Leith, N.B., and brother of Sir Thomas Elder (q.v.), was born at Kirkcaldy in April 1815, and emigrated to South Australia in 1839, where he founded the well-known mercantile firm of Elder & Co., now Elder, Smith & Co., of Adelaide. In 1853 he went to reside in England, and was head of the firm of A. L. Elder & Co., of London, until his death. Prior to his leaving South Australia, he was member for West Adelaide in the mixed Legislative Council inaugurated in 1851, but resigned his seat on March 30th, 1853. He married a daughter of the late Rev. John Baptist Austin, of South Australia. He died in London on Sept. 5th, 1885.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Elder, Sir Thomas

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​Elder, Sir Thomas, G.C.M.G., is the fourth son of the late George Elder, of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, by his marriage with Joanna Haddo, daughter of Alexander Lang, of Leith, N.B., and was born at Kirkcaldy in 1818. He emigrated to South Australia in 1854, and joined the firm of Elder & Co., founded by his brother, Mr. A. L. Elder, and on the retirement of the latter became its head, as he now is of the present firm of Elder, Smith & Co., of Adelaide. Sir Thomas Elder was mainly instrumental in forming the company to work the famous Moonta copper mines. He also introduced camels into the colony for exploratory purposes in 1861, and allowed of their use by the expeditions under Mr. Giles, Major Warburton, and Mr. Gosse. Sir Thomas contributed £20,000 towards the endowment of Adelaide University in 1874, and, in addition to other benefactions, endowed a scholarship in connection with the Royal College of Music of London, and offered £5000 towards the exploration of the interior of Australia, and a similar amount towards the expenses of the proposed Antarctic expedition, conditionally, in both cases, on a certain amount of public subscriptions being obtained. Ultimately he undertook the sole cost of the exploring expedition under Mr. Lindsay in 1891-2. He has taken an active interest in ​the breeding of first-class stock, and has imported some of the finest horses brought to Australia. He was a member of the Legislative Council from 1863 to 1868 and from 1871 till 1878, when he resigned his seat, and in the latter year went to Europe as Honorary Commissioner for South Australia at the Paris International Exhibition. In 1887 he offered to contribute £10,000 towards the establishment of a Medical School in connection with the University of Adelaide. He was knighted in May 1878, and created K.C.M.G. in 1887 and G.C.M.G. in 1888.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Ellery, Robert Lewis John

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​Ellery, Robert Lewis John, C.M.G., F.R.S., F.R.A.S. (Government Astronomer of Victoria), is the son of the late John Ellery, of Cranleigh, Surrey, where he was born in July 1827. He was educated at the local grammar school, and subsequently adopted the medical profession. Astronomical researches, however, mainly occupied his attention; and after his arrival in Victoria, in 1851, he was employed by Mr. La Trobe to establish an observatory at Williamstown, near Melbourne. He assumed office on July 13th, 1853, and has since, under various titles, discharged the functions of Government astronomer. In 1858 he initiated a geodetic and trigonometrical survey of the colony. Five years later the observatory was removed from Williamstown to its present site in the Domain, Melbourne, and the meteorological and physical observatory, previously conducted by Professor Neumayer, was amalgamated with it under the control of Mr. Ellery. He was President of the Royal Society of Victoria for twenty years, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1873. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society since 1855, and is an honorary member of numerous foreign scientific societies. Mr. Ellery is also a member of the Council of the University of Melbourne, and one of the trustees of the Public Library. In 1873 Mr. Ellery assisted in organising the Torpedo and Signal Corps (now the Submarine Mining Engineers), and held the rank of lieutenant-colonel in connection therewith. In 1889 he was created C.M.G. His first wife died in 1856, three years after their marriage; and Mr. Ellery married secondly, in 1858, Margaret, daughter of John Shields, of Launceston, Tasmania.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Elder, David

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​Elder, David, J.P., son of Douglas Elder, by his wife Euphemia Adam, was born at Dundee on June 19th, 1850, and arrived in Melbourne on August 10th, 1855. He was educated at the Scotch college, and entered the office of Mr. Andrew Lyell, public accountant, in 1865, becoming a partner in the firm in 1874. In 1880 Mr. Elder left the firm to assume the Melbourne managership of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, and in 1890 he was made general manager of the Company in Australia. Mr. Elder is a justice of the peace for the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales, and returning officer for the district of Essendon and Flemington, in the former colony. He was Commissioner of Savings Banks, but resigned the position on visiting England in 1890. Mr. Elder married, on May 23rd, 1873, Miss Emma Turner.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Emberson, Hon. Horace G. C.

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​Emberson, Hon. Horace G. C., Receiver-General and Agent-General of Immigration, Fiji, is an Associate of Arts of Oxford University, and a notary public. He was appointed a stipendiary magistrate in Fiji in Oct. 1874, a member of the Lands Commission in Oct. 1875, Registrar-General, Chief Police Magistrate, and Commissioner of the Supreme Court in 1876, Registrar of Titles in 1877, Acting Commissioner of Crown Lands and Acting Member of the Executive Council in 1880, Acting M.L.C. in June 1881 Acting Receiver-General and Comptroller of Stamps, and a Member of the Executive Council in 1877, and, along with other duties, Acting Agent-General of Immigration in 1888. To the latter post he was permanently appointed in 1889, and holds it in conjunction with that of ​Receiver-General and Commissioner of Stamps. He is also a member of the Legislative Council.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Eggers, William

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​Eggers, William, was born in 1815 at Brunswick, Hanover, where his father was a medical man. After a university training he went to London, and entered the employment of the eminent printing firm of Clowes, Gilbert & Rivington. In 1848 he emigrated to Adelaide, where he was employed in the mechanical department of the South Australian Register. Subsequently he started the Australische Deutsche Zeitung, the first German newspaper published in the colony. He died on Jan. 20th, 1882.