"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."
— Victor Daley

January 1, 1970

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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