Parkes, "The Buried Chief": Sir James Martin, born 1820,
Premier and subsequently Chief Justice of New South Wales,
died 4th November, 1886.
Gordon, "A Dedication": The first six stanzas of The Dedication of
"Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes" to the author of "Holmby House"
(Whyte Melville).
Gordon, "Thora's Song": First printed in `The Australasian'
under the title of "Frustra".
Gordon, "The Sick Stock-rider": First appeared in `The Colonial Monthly' without the final stanza here printed, which was preserved by Mr. J. J. Shillinglaw.
Kendall, "Prefatory Sonnets": The phrase — "tormented and awry with passion" — also appears in Walter Pater's essay on "Aesthetic Poetry", which, according to Mr. Ferris Greenslet's monograph on Pater, was written in 1868, but first published in `Appreciations', 1889. "Leaves from Australian Forests", in which these sonnets were first printed, was published in Melbourne in 1869.
Kendall, "To a Mountain": Dedicatory verses of "Songs from the Mountains".
Kendall, "Araluen": The author's daughter, named after a town
in the Shoalhaven District, New South Wales.
Kendall, "Hy-Brasil": Hy-Brasil, or Tir-Nan-Oge, is the fabled
Island of the Blessed, the paradise of ancient Ireland.
Kendall, "Outre Mer": From a poem left unfinished at the author's death.
First printed in "Poems" (1886).
Clarke, "The Song of Tigilau": "Tigilau, the son of Tui Viti"; an attempt to paraphrase a legend of Samoa, is remarkable as evidence of direct intercourse between Samoa and Fiji, and as showing by the use of the term "Tui Viti" that a king once reigned over ALL Fiji. The singularly poetic and rhythmical original will be found in a paper contributed by Mr. Pritchard, F.A.S.I., etc., to the Anthropological Society of London." — Author's Note.