But now my harp as mute must grow
As that which hangs at Tara.
Farewell, dear Maid from Bendigo!
Farewell, O Yarra-Yarra!
W. L.
This imitation of Wordsworth’s poems, Yarrow Unvisited, Yarrow Visited, and Yarrow Revisited, appeared originally in The Month, May and June, 1872. The allusion in the first verse is to J. J. Callanan, an Irish poet, who wrote Gougaune Barra, which is inserted in Bell’s Standard Elocutionist. (Belfast, 1874) p. 436.
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A SONNET ON THE SONNET.
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned
Mindless of its just honours; with this key