80
Art 80
"Henry George" 81
William Wallace 83
The Australian Flag 83
To an Old Friend in England: "Esau" 84
At the Seamen's Union: "The Seamen and the Miners" 84
To His Love 85
Her Poem: "My Baby Girl that was born and died on the same 86
day"
To Henry George in America 86
"Algernon Charles Swinburne" 87
To an Unionist 88
To my Friend, Sydney Jephcott 89
To E. L. Zox 89
"Father Abe": Song of the American Sons of Labour 90
"A Fool" 93
Mount Rennie:
I. The Australian Press speaks 95
II. The Time-Spirit speaks 97
"Tyranny": The Delegates speak 97
From a Verandah: "Armageddon" 98
"Elsie"--A Memory 99
"Nationalism and M'Ilwraith" 99
To the Emperor William 100
A Story 101
At the India Docks 103
Dirge: "A Little Soldier of the Army of the Night" 108
To Queen Victoria in England 109
Farewell to the Children 111
Epode: On the Ranges, Queensland 113
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Australian Press Notices 116

PREFACE.

A few words of preface seem necessary in sending out this little book.
It is to be looked on as the product of the life of a social worker in
England, in his travels, and in Australia. The key-note of the First
Part--"England"--is desperation, or, if any hope, then "desperate hope