"When 'the little folk' meet by the red rowan tree The dance shall be stayed in the ring on the plot While they twine in his green Irish isle of the sea The wreath we forgot."
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Will H. Ogilvie, verse printed as a Foreword to Victor Daley (Bulletin Newspaper Co., 1905), by A. G. Stephens. Reported in "The ink quest", The Clipper, vol. 12, no. 680 (5 May 1906), p. 8; "Kendall on the Hawkesbury", Freeman's Journal, vol. 71, no. 3702 (26 February 1920), p. 25
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Victor Daley
Victor James William Patrick Daley (5 September 1858 – 29 December 1905) was an Australian poet. An example of the in Australian verse, he serves as a lyrical alternative to the contemporary bush balladists Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, and Will H. Ogilvie.
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