"Here I can sit at ease on days of rain, And read my Rabelais and my Montaigne, Self-centred as a solitary star That has no satellites its peace to mar. Society salutes me with salaam, For I am single β thank the Lord I am!"
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"The Australian Bachelor's Soliloquy, by a Jealous Married Man", in Victor Daley, ed. H. J. Oliver (1963)
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Victor Daley
Victor James William Patrick Daley (5 September 1858 β 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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