III.
“dirge.”
“Sleep in the pure driven sand,
(No one will know)
In the coral isle by the land
Where the blue tides come and go.
“Alive, thou wert poor, despised;
Dead, thou canst have
What mightiest monarchs have prized,
An eternal grave!
“Alone with the lovely isles,
With the lovely deep,
Where the sea-winds sing and the sunlight smiles
Thou liest asleep!”
III.
“AUSTRALIA:
victoria—new south wales—queensland.”
THE OUTCASTS.
(Melbourne.)
Here to the parks they come,
The scourings of the town,
Like weary wounded animals
Seeking where to lie them down.
Brothers, let us take together
An easeful period.
There is worse than to be as we are—
Cast out, not of men but of God!
VICTORIA TO JAMES MOORHOUSE, [76]
Bishop of Melbourne, who left Melbourne for the Bishopric of Manchester, 10th March 1886.